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As we say in data analytics, "garbage in, garbage out". These ranking based on internet users perceived insecurity have been identified many times for their lack of relevance and their bias.

First bias is "perception", which is influenced by how media want to communicate and who own them - in France, mostly right wing billionaires. There is no actual correlation with actual, real, statistics.

Second, by who answer the survey - often people concerned about insecurity, which is a topic from the right.

Finally, there is no control on how many times you can vote, and some people demonstrated that with very few knowledge, you can completely change the results by sending thousands of vote [1].

The fact that Nantes is deemed highly insecure in France is also the consequence of this city being socialist and the place where police killed a guy named Steve during a party. So these attacks on Nantes being dangerous can also be interpreted as a backlash[2].

Please Hacker News, you're better than this, don't fall in this trap...

[1]: https://xcancel.com/dbertho/status/1574761634840592384 [2]: https://www.index.ngo/en/news/steve-maia-canico-trial-of-pol...