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The methods used for the gathering and reporting crime statistics are gathering of police reports, surveys, and statistical reports. A person then needs to combine together any information, comparing statistics and other elements to create a complete and thorough report.
The two main forms of statistics are qualitative (descriptive) statistics and quantitative (inferential or inductive) statistics.
The two questions that you should ask when evaluating social statistics are listed below: 1. Who created the statistics? 2. How was the statistics created?
Statistics is quantative analysis tool and therefore only looks a general trends for patterns such as the correlation between two things (such as crime and poverty) with out examining the minutiae of individuals experiences. The other form of analysis is qualitative research, which would comprise things such as case studies, observations or in-depth interviews with the group being analysed. Also statistics can show a link between two things with out finding out which causes which.
There are two types of statistics. One is called descriptive statistics and the other is inferential statistics. Descriptive statistics is when you use numbers. Inferential statistics is when you draw conclusions or make predictions.