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Old 06-02-2015, 06:44 AM
 
Location: Southern Arizona
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Arizona ranked 44. WalletHub identified which of the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia offer the safest and most budget-friendly environments.

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Old 06-02-2015, 07:51 AM
 
Location: AriZona
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Arizona ranked 44. WalletHub identified which of the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia offer the safest and most budget-friendly environments.

2015
I don't get how this so-called study ranks Maryland #10 in "Home & Community Safety”, when Baltimore has basically become the murder capital of America.

These rankings and studies always seem rather subjective to me, and raise more questions than the answers they claim to provide.
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Old 06-02-2015, 08:06 AM
 
Location: Southern Arizona
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Good Grief . . . another Lopsided, Mega Waste of Money Study.

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Old 06-02-2015, 08:13 AM
 
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Arizona ranked 44. WalletHub identified which of the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia offer the safest and most budget-friendly environments.

2015
That's 2 different studies. What did they do, average the results?
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Old 06-02-2015, 09:01 AM
 
Location: Metro Phoenix, AZ USA
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That's 2 different studies. What did they do, average the results?
Pretty much. There are states that ended up fairly highly ranked, but they were in the bottom 10 in one category, the top ten in another, and in the middle on others.

"Studies" like this are meaningless.
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Old 06-02-2015, 09:37 AM
 
Location: Baltimore
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I don't get how this so-called study ranks Maryland #10 in "Home & Community Safety”, when Baltimore has basically become the murder capital of America.

These rankings and studies always seem rather subjective to me, and raise more questions than the answers they claim to provide.
Well if you actually noticed this was not a city safety ranking but a state "Home & Communtiy Safety" ranking on a broader scale. Did you take into account that the counties of Maryland have little crime and most of the states violent crime homicides only occur in Baltimore City and those are even minimalized to foul play, drug dealing, poor areas etc. Anyways, I'm sure the data they collected was done before the recent spike in crime in Baltimore was accounted for. Still I don't believe that it would have affected the whole state much in its Home & Community Safety.

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Old 06-02-2015, 01:02 PM
 
Location: Amongst the AZ Cactus
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When I see AZ "Natural Disasters Rank" higher at 26 than California rated at 12(water issues? mudslides? wildfires? potential major earthquake not considered?), District of Columbia has a "Home and community rank" of 18 vs AZ at 45, and when they label AZ with a "Road Safety Rank" of 50, dead last, yet the largest city in AZ where most of the population resides in AZ(Phoenix) consistently is ranked high in safest drivers in the country......

Phoenix ranked safest for drivers among big cities in Allstate report

.......I have to shake my head.
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Old 06-02-2015, 02:01 PM
 
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When I see AZ "Natural Disasters Rank" higher at 26 than California rated at 12(water issues? mudslides? wildfires? potential major earthquake not considered?), District of Columbia has a "Home and community rank" of 18 vs AZ at 45, and when they label AZ with a "Road Safety Rank" of 50, dead last, yet the largest city in AZ where most of the population resides in AZ(Phoenix) consistently is ranked high in safest drivers in the country......

Phoenix ranked safest for drivers among big cities in Allstate report

.......I have to shake my head.
That's why Merriam Webster recently added "clickbait" to their dictionary.
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Old 06-03-2015, 12:41 AM
 
Location: When you take flak it means you are on target
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Not even worth the waste of time it took to open the link.

Totally worthless, bogus statistics.
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Old 06-03-2015, 08:43 AM
 
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
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Stupid. This is so wrong on almost every single level, but hey, who are we? We're just the people who live here! Whatever. They can publish this crap all they want, it wont change a thing. I do agree about the road safety thing, though. Drivers out here are truly the worst Ive ever seen, and I lived outside Chicago. Never seen so many accidents and near-misses as I have since moving here.
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