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So Fitbit

As 150 billion hours of heart data. Wow. It's the most heart data that's ever been compiled in the history of human beings.

Obviously. And there's some stuff in it that's got interesting. So I'm going to hit you with that coming up a little bit.

Oh yeah. Wow. I've been hooked up to various monitors for years, various periods of time trying to figure out what's going on with my ticker, which is fine.

So yeah. I mean, the data just on me was pretty useful. So I can't imagine how many billions hours or just 150 billion hours.

You can't even comprehend that much. Much data. I can. Okay. Well, good for you.

So getting back to the story that the US Education Department reported that in the 2015-16 school year, this it's worth pointing out was a report entirely run by the Obama administration.

And now it's, you know, coming out and seeing the light of day reported nearly 240 schools reported at least one incident involving a school related shooting.

That's at least one incident. So the number is higher than 240. And listen, if you're just tuning in, the contagion of angry young men generally speaking who think because they're unhappy, they get to kill and hurt people.

Sometimes at schools is a serious and serious and tragic problem in our society. And we ought to be addressing it as aggressively as possible. We agree with you on that.

But that's not a reason to not traffic in facts as opposed to fantasy.

Oh, hey, you can't solve a problem with made up statistics. A lot of people try. Anyway, according to the US Education Department, nearly 240 schools reported at least one incident involving school related shooting.

NPR for over the course of three months tried to track down the reality of this found that more than two thirds of the reported incidents never happened. And they were able to confirm just 11 of the at least 240 incidents named in the report.

And then we talked a little bit about their methodology and etc. At least 53 new school safety laws were passed in 2018.

I remember districts are spending millions of dollars to harden schools, etc.

Yeah, exactly. See, see, there's so many things to this to make you mad. So you make up the phone statistics. There's all kinds of things you can do.

If you want to, you can try to crack down on various grunk gun laws based on this made up statistic. You can get taxpayers to dole out gazillions of dollars.

That maybe we don't need that much security. If there aren't near as many shootings as we think, but there's a bunch of politicians who are getting lobbied by people who make metal detectors and whatnot.

It gets very complicated, very fast. I also remember that, you know, sometimes they count school shootings. There's a high profile case of a thing was a principle who shot himself in his truck in the parking lot committed suicide that went down as a school shooting.

That's not what we're talking about. Obviously, so you know, you have to weed out stuff like that.

So the civil rights data collection for 2018 required every public school, more than 96,000 of them to answer questions on a wide range of issues. It asked what sounded like a simple question.

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