Good to know thank you for sharing. I often said this one should be easy to answer by simply speaking to the people in charge of reporting the statistics. Bottom line is we cannot use this as evidence for pizzagate, since the outlier is easily explained by a difference of reporting.
Of course, none of this means pizzagate is false. Doesn't mean that missing children and pizzagate aren't linked -- I'm sure they are. But our evidence in this case falls short. That's why we investigate.
well, we needn't be so conclusive. it seems to weaken this 'outlier' as use for pizzagate - but we still don't know the whole story - maybe the Virginia authorities recognised an issue with teens running away from parents who had subjected them to abuse by the parents and 'important friends' and on that basis decided to include those figures in this data set.
I would still be prepared to eat my hat if we had accurate data from all over the USA and DC area remained an outlier to some degree - maybe not as much as that data-set suggests. But just the proximity of those kids to the Saudi freaking embassy would be enough to narrow my eyes
I didn't mean to sound conclusive. I have used this VA outlier as evidence to others and now it turns out it's only evidence that states report missing children differently.
We definitely shouldn't take NCMEC's word for it. And we definitely shouldn't conclude there's nothing to see here. But we can't compare apples and oranges and claim it is suspicious. That is my point.
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unbiased_researcher ago
Good to know thank you for sharing. I often said this one should be easy to answer by simply speaking to the people in charge of reporting the statistics. Bottom line is we cannot use this as evidence for pizzagate, since the outlier is easily explained by a difference of reporting.
Of course, none of this means pizzagate is false. Doesn't mean that missing children and pizzagate aren't linked -- I'm sure they are. But our evidence in this case falls short. That's why we investigate.
MolochHunter ago
well, we needn't be so conclusive. it seems to weaken this 'outlier' as use for pizzagate - but we still don't know the whole story - maybe the Virginia authorities recognised an issue with teens running away from parents who had subjected them to abuse by the parents and 'important friends' and on that basis decided to include those figures in this data set.
I would still be prepared to eat my hat if we had accurate data from all over the USA and DC area remained an outlier to some degree - maybe not as much as that data-set suggests. But just the proximity of those kids to the Saudi freaking embassy would be enough to narrow my eyes
unbiased_researcher ago
I didn't mean to sound conclusive. I have used this VA outlier as evidence to others and now it turns out it's only evidence that states report missing children differently.
We definitely shouldn't take NCMEC's word for it. And we definitely shouldn't conclude there's nothing to see here. But we can't compare apples and oranges and claim it is suspicious. That is my point.