Detroit News poll: Crime drives Detroiters out; 40% expect to leave in 5 years

**michimoby** · October-09-12, 03:47 PM

Originally Posted by Bham1982

Why is it misleading? It's counting Detroit as a whole, not a few cherry-picked blocks with a handful of hipsters.

Would any sensible person accept the results of a Chicago-based poll if it lumped together the South Side and, say, Lake View? I'd question it, at least.

**Bham1982** · October-09-12, 06:32 PM

Originally Posted by michimoby

Would any sensible person accept the results of a Chicago-based poll if it lumped together the South Side and, say, Lake View? I'd question it, at least.

I'm not sure why you would question it, if it were [[using your example) a poll about Chicago as a whole. There are a lot more South Side-type hood neighborhoods in Chicago than Lakeview-type yuppie neighborhoods.

Again, this is a poll about the City of Detroit, not two blocks near Wayne State. When you do a sample, you do a representative sample from the whole, not from some tiny sliver of your subject.