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The Tarbell project that generates Convicted in Cook
http://convictions.smartchicagoapps.org/
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Review of questions/answers from Tracy's contact #145

Open Yana715 opened 9 years ago

Yana715 commented 9 years ago

What did you do to adjust for minors? Did you count them or exclude them or use them separately?

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ghing commented 9 years ago

@Yana715 I excluded minors from the age-bracket counts but included them in the overall and categorical counts. I excluded them from the age brackets because we don't know if we received all juvenile records and we couldn't differentiate between real juveniles and potential data-entry juveniles in any way that didn't seem arbitrary (e.g. a cut-off age). It seemed bad to include them in the age-based analysis because it's not possible to give an accurate comparison with the other age groups since the number could be smaller by ommision.

I included as many convictions as possible for the charge category figures because the question was different. The (potentially erroneously recorderd) age doesn't negate that someone was convicted for a particular offense.

Yana715 commented 9 years ago

Thanks for the clarification.

We have a section in the Tarbell spreadsheet that says warnings, which I believe were our caveat sections (and included the information above), but as of now the full text in the spreadsheet doesn't seem to appear on the site.

On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Geoffrey Hing notifications@github.com wrote:

@Yana715 https://github.com/Yana715 I excluded minors from the age-bracket counts but included them in the overall and categorical counts. I excluded them from the age brackets because we don't know if we received all juvenile records and we couldn't differentiate between real juveniles and potential data-entry juveniles in any way that didn't seem arbitrary (e.g. a cut-off age). It seemed bad to include them in the age-based analysis because it's not possible to give an accurate comparison with the other age groups since the number could be smaller by ommision.

I included as many convictions as possible for the charge category figures because the question was different. The (potentially erroneously recorderd) age doesn't negate that someone was convicted for a particular offense.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/sc3/cook-convictions/issues/145#issuecomment-65956172 .

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