Don't go to Mexico

[gnimmel]

As people of a more twittery or facebooky nature may be aware, I'm currently at a conference in San Diego. Now, I have a little time for tourism at the end of the conference, and San Diego is right on the Mexican border, and on the other side of the Mexican border is Tijuana. Tijuana is, at least in popular myth, a seedy, decadent place, home to

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[atreic]

Footnote [3] made me laugh out loud :-)

[keirf]

Strangely enough if you'd said you were going to New Orleans I imagine no one would have commented "Don't go! It's the murder capital of the US!"

A quick search suggests that New Orleans has a murder rate of 55/100k as opposed to Tijuana's 30/100k. Mind you, the figures bounce all over the place from year to year.

[perlmonger]

Statistics, understanding and use, should be taught in all schools from an early age. (Though (parenthetically) I remember being taught some basic stats in school [mumble] years ago, and hating it in a bouncing-right-off-my-shield-of-ignorance sort of way (though, of course, that might just be because it was taught badly with no contextual examples that caught my imagination)).

[ashfae]

Statistics, understanding and use, should be taught in all schools from an early age.

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

[ext_223796]

Of all the things you've written about our fair city, only one is true: we do have donkeys. But they are painted to look like zebras and they don't have any carnal traffic with women