My very good friends on the left used to love, when presented with a fact which challenged their assertions, to use the expression, “The plural of anecdote is not data.” I, of course, pointed out that an ‘anecdote,’ if confirmed, actually is a datum. A few years ago, Barry Ritholtz writing in The Big Picture, reported:

Which brings us back to anecdotes: As it turns out, the original quote about anecdotes had a very different context, and a much more nuanced meaning. It is attributed to Ray Wolfinger, who was a political scientist at the University of California-Berkeley.

Wolfinger’s original statement was quite literally the very opposite of what we all have been using. He had actually said “the plural of anecdote is data.” This should affect the way we think about and use data.

Mr Ritholtz noted the problem of selection bias. Yes, he used as an example, shark attacks are dangerous, and frequently lethal, but the vast majority of interactions between humans and sharks do not result in sharks attacking humans. I am reminded of General ‘Buck’ Turgidson’s statement in Dr Strangelove, “I don’t think it’s fair to condemn the whole program due to a single slip-up.” And that leads me to the obvious question: just how many of these data points does it take to destroy the narrative?

A site search of Robert Stacy McCain’s The Other McCain reveals that he has had at least 47 articles entitled Crazy People Ara Dangerous, and there are more, such as yesterday’s Crazy People Are Dangerous (and Pennsylvania Democrats Are Crazy) which use a variation in the title and are not thus enumerated by number.

And thus we come to the story of Andrea Ye, who is clearly off her rocker:

Trans teen allegedly plotted mass shootings at two schools in twisted plot to become ‘famous’

By Yaron Steinbuch | Friday, April 19, 2024 | 7:42 AM EDT

A transgender Maryland teenager has been arrested for allegedly planning a mass shooting at two schools in a twisted effort to become “famous.”

Alex Ye, 18, of Rockville, whose legal name is Andrea, was arrested Wednesday and charged with threatening mass violence after allegedly authoring the 129-page document the suspect referred to as a “memoir,” according to ABC News.

As specified in our Stylebook, The First Street Journal always refers to the ‘transgendered’ by their real names, and using the pronouns and honorifics associated with their actual sex, rather than the made-up bovine feces they choose to use, but I do not change the direct quotes of others. The New York Post, as do so many other credentialed media sources, goes along with the silliness of the Associated Press Stylebook, and refers to young Miss Ye with male references.

Authorities said the writing was about committing mass shootings at Wootton High School, which Ye had attended online, and at Lakewood Elementary School.

Ye allegedly told his former school counselor that he wanted to become “famous from this event,” according to the outlet.

The student had claimed the memoir was a work of fiction — which included a disclaimer that it doesn’t “represent the author’s beliefs” — but a person with whom the student shared the document alerted authorities because it bore “striking similarities” to the writer.

The witness believed Ye — who is biologically female though identifies as male — was prepared to carry out the attacks shortly, according to the news outlet.

There’s a lot more at the original, and the Post is not hidden behind a paywall, so you can read it for yourself.

We have previously reported on Audrey Elizabeth Hale, the woman who claimed to be a man calling herself “Aiden,” who killed three children and three adults at The Covenant School, a private Christian elementary school outside Nashville, and the laughable contortions in which the credentialed media engaged to not make too much of the fact that Miss Hale was ‘transgender.’ The Nashville Police found a notebook that Miss Hale had written, which apparently contained references to her plans, something the police kept secret until conservative podcaster Steven Crowder got his hands on photocopies of three pages of it and published them. The reaction of the police? They wanted to investigate the leak, to punish the leaker, rather than just tell the whole truth. Since the killer had already been sent to her eternal reward, it wasn’t as though there was some evidence which had to be protected.

We also reported on the how the professional media in Philadelphia and elsewhere tried to keep the fact that Kimbrady Carriker was either ‘transgender’ or a cross-dresser or something else weird, and Asa Khalif, a member of the LGBTQ advisory committee for the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, was far less concerned about how many people Mr Carriker (allegedly) murdered than the fact that his sexual oddities were publicized.

The credentialed media have been quick to tell us that the ‘transgendered’ or ‘non-binary’ are no more likely to become mass shooters, because they have a political agenda to pursue: they do not want people to think that the ‘transgendered’ or ‘non-binary’ are crazy.

So, what do we have?

• CNN’s story on the arrest, at least as of its update at 12:51 PM EDT, makes no mention of Miss Ye’s real name, Andrea, nor the fact she is ‘transgender.
• NBC News story, as of 8:16 AM EDT, notes that Miss Ye had been undergoing some psychiatric care, makes no mention of Miss Ye’s real name, Andrea, nor the fact that she is ‘transgender.’
• WBAL-TV’s report does note that Miss Ye’s ‘manifesto was authored by Andrea Ye, “whose preferred name is Alex Ye,” but there is no specific mention that she is ‘transgendered.’
• Fox 5 in Washington noted that Andrea Ye was charged, but that her “preferred name is Alex.” There was no mention that she was ‘transgender.’
• CBS News reported that Miss Ye was writing a book about a transgender main character who was bullied and wanted to shoot up a school, but neither mentioned that her name is really Andrea, or that she was, herself, ‘transgendered.

Other than the New York Post, the credentialed media are trying to either soft-peddle the news, or outright hide an important point, because they do not want readers to understand that the ‘transgendered’ and the ‘non-binary’ are crazy.

I have said it before: whenever there is a truth you cannot tell, that is a truth you must tell! And the truth is that the ‘transgendered’ and the ‘non-binary are just plain crazy.