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telmar25 t1_is4pps0 wrote

Reply to comment by Wx_Justin in Columbia, Md. named 'safest city' for 5th year; Baltimore ranked 161 of 182 cities by f1sh98

To get 25% I roughly added up the weights of all the crime-related individual items in their “methodology.” So crime is only 25% of it overall.

I’m not making a point about Columbia crime… I live here and have a fairly good idea where things sit. But this WalletHub thing is kinda silly.

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Wx_Justin t1_is4q5c6 wrote

All of the crime-related fields actually add up to over 50% of the weight for that section.

I do agree that it would be better to see a full report rather than summary statistics, however.

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telmar25 t1_is4qq57 wrote

I hear you, it’s good that we are first in that section and probably indicates that we are doing something right with regard to crime. Still the point stands, about 25% or thereabouts of the weight of this overall ranking is about crime, and the WalletHub thing is kinda clickbaity and misleading.

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