Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Turning Stats on Tricks


A recent article by the website Slate, discussing why prostitution is illegal, offered the following point raised by a sociologist studying the issue:


"Prostitutes get arrested about once per 450 tricks, and johns even less frequently. "

Slate observed two lessons here:

1) A law that isn't being enforced much may not be worth having; and

2) Eliot Spitzer looks really, really unlucky.

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