Landlords charge what the market will bear. (View Post)

The riots over the poll tax were because we were moving from a property tax to a poll tax. That, if anything, suggests a property tax would be welcomed! (View Post)

If the assaults are conducted by a small number of the most violent individuals, then you probably have an overdispersed Poisson distribution and the confidence intervals would be larger. If one had … (View Post)

You could keep it even simpler: re-value and introduce higher bands. (View Post)

The graph says 23.1 assaults per 100 prisoners. If there are 500 Jewish prisoners, then that should be 115.5 assaults. Let's call it 115. This is probably Poisson distributed, so on that basis, … (View Post)