r/cringereels • u/Yemuska • 2d ago

This is extraordinarily stressful to watch

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u/Glittering_rainbows 2d ago

NYC subways are known for creeps because many thousands of trips are taken daily and everyone has a cellphone.

You don't see the 999 trips that go fine but you do see the 1 in 1000 that have an issue.

Same reason if you turn on the news you'll see nothing but bad news, because that's what people stop to watch.

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u/Secret_Gatekeeper 1d ago

Born and raised lifelong New Yorker, and I’m sorry but in no universe is the subway weirdo incident rate .001% 😂.

Multiply that by 100x and you’re a little closer.

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u/Glittering_rainbows 1d ago

1 in 1000 is 0.1%

0.001% is 1 in 100,000

If you're going to "well Ackchyually" someone, you should at least use two brain cells.

Multiplying 0.001% by 100 is actually 0.1%, or 1 in 1,000 which is what I said.

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u/Secret_Gatekeeper 1d ago

Fair enough, I stand corrected.

Now will you? Because I’m not the only one who pulled out a bunch of bullshit.

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u/CatsAgainstDrugs 1d ago

I mean if yall wanna continue pointless debates, do your thing but: https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/how-rare-is-crime-on-the-subway/

It’s extremely hard to find accurate statistics for “lower-level” (still deserving of the death penalty imho) sexual crimes in the NYC subway, but that 2024 article points to a rate of 1 in 1 million chance of this kind of encounter. The problem is that report rates for those lower-level sexual crimes is extremely low, the figure of 1-in-1000 advanced by u/Glittering_rainbow is 1000x more the reported rate. Now is that enough to cover the overwhelmingly low number of reports for those lower-level sexual crimes ? I genuinely think so, but you are entitled to think otherwise and I have no scientific basis to say otherwise :)

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u/No_Custard7661 1d ago

That doesn't really conflict with my point.

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u/Frobizzle 15h ago

This applies to practically everything you see online. People think planes are falling out of the sky and that everyone is a psycho nutjob. People are turning themselves into paranoid agoraphobes.