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Coincidence?

 

Forbes.com recently unveiled its 2009 version of "America's Safest Cities" based on statistical measurements of violent crime, traffic deaths, deaths in the workplace, and distance from natural disasters in the forty largest metropolitan areas in the United States.

They might have considered "sports fan quality" in an effort to save time, but if "violent crime, traffic deaths, deaths in the workplace, and distance from natural disasters" doesn't conjure up the 2004-2009 Kansas City Royals / Kansas City Chiefs for you, you probably live in Florida and hate sports.

Me? I'm starting to get a leeeeetle jealous of Boston. We all know about the "Decade of Boston," (thanks Simmons), but now they're one of the top 5 safest places of all major metropolitan areas in the country? What's next?

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What would make you even more jealous of Boston?
Getting the Summer Olympics (and nobody protests).
14 votes
Getting Albert Pujols and Zack Greinke for a couple AAA guys.
152 votes
Tom Brady invents time-traveling DeLorean, goes back in time and convinces Brees to play tennis, wins another 3 Super Bowls.
9 votes
Large Hadron Collider is shamed into shutting down after Kevin Garnett realizes that yes, anything is possible, and creates black hole while shooting free throws.
21 votes

196 votes | Poll has closed

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haha

(sorry)

To be fair, there does seem to be a line of “safety” that pretty much resembles the Mason Dixon.

by Justin Bopp on Nov 1, 2009 1:39 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Wondering if that's just St. Pete, or the area in general...

Or if I’m naive about the peril I face. Hmm…

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by bs.uf15bosox9bears23 on Nov 1, 2009 12:42 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

An Incredibly Sloppy List

They calculate ranks for four categories: Violent Crime, Workplace Fatality Rates, Traffic Death Rates, Natural Disaster Risk. Then they simply sum the four rank numbers to obtain a city rating. That’s the wrong way to sum probabilities!!!! The third comment on the original article says as much

It’s also notable that the two cities with the lowest traffic death rates, Boston & New York, are the ones with the worst traffic. I guess it’s hard to have a fatal accident when you’re inching along in a bumper to bumper jam.

by ekogan on Oct 31, 2009 8:21 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Re: Traffic

From my experience, people outside of the northeast just suck at driving.

"Ninety percent [of my salary] I'll spend on good times, women, and Irish whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste."
-Tug McGraw

by BTLove on Nov 1, 2009 7:51 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

A comment from the original article

Here’s a comment from the original article giving an updated list with a better methodology

by ekogan on Oct 31, 2009 8:24 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I thought Oakland

would have had a huge red dot. Hmm…

Cardinal fans are good, and their city is definitely not safe.

godfather of futureredbirds.net

by erik on Nov 1, 2009 1:51 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

There is no way

that Cleveland is safer than Columbus.

by gogomets on Nov 1, 2009 11:13 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Im kinda shocked KC is that "unsafe"

on the other hand its kinda amazing that there isn’t mass serial killings in the name of Kansas City sports futility.

Desperately hoping for Desperate Measures

by averagegatsby on Nov 1, 2009 11:04 PM EST reply actions   0 recs


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