That Davao City is one of the safest cities in the world has been touted as fact by netizens, publications, and politicans alike. But, where did this information originally come from and how was this conclusion reached? One Facebook user, Sean De Dios, decided to conduct a 15 minute search on the matter and this is what he found:
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Duterte and everyone else throws around “Davao, Nth safest city in the world” a lot. So while I was waiting for the traffic to die down on this 13th month payday Friday, I decided to conduct a 15 minute research.
Lets find out who declared Davao City as the 6th (or 9th, or 4th??) safest city IN THE WORLD (Jeremy Clarkson voice)!
I figured that Philippine based publications would be biased, #pinoypride and all, so I chose to avoid those. Instead, I looked at the following sites:
telegraph.co.uk
bbc.com
independent.co.uk
economist.com
cnbc.com
businessinsider.com
msn.com
You know which website mentioned Davao? None. Not even in Top 50 lists.
This made me look into the Inquirer article, checking their sources. The ranking of Davao city comes from Numbeo.com which is a user-contributed survey site. USER-CONTRIBUTED. And I checked it– a whopping 452 contributors! To add to that, what country is the Social Media capital of the world? Us, of course! (https://vulcanpost.com/
Now before you get your panties in a bunch, I’m not saying that Davao city isn’t as safe as it claims to be. I’m just saying that if you’re going to claim something as big as NTH IN THE WORLD, you better have the proper sources to back you up.
You connect the dots. And, if anyone has better sources regarding the prestigious title, please let me know because I’d rather hope that it is in fact, well-earned.
P.S.
I’m not discrediting Duterte nor am I discrediting the testimonials from the populace of Davao. Lets just remember that not everything you see on the internet should be taken at face-value. Lets read, dig deep, and vote wisely! #PHVote
What can you say about this?
I don’t understand why a lot of people trying to descredit Davao city and its citizen just to derail Duterte’s campaign against crime and drugs, and someone trying to descredit numbeo look at this.
Numbeo was founded in April 2009 by Mladen Adamovic. Originally it was a website for crowd-sourced price comparison, but later in 2011 it started to collect data about crime, pollution, health care, and traffic.
Numbeo was mentioned or used as a source in hundreds of major newspapers around the world, including Forbes, Business Insider, Time, The Economist, BBC, The New York Times, China Daily,
Numbeo claims to be the biggest website of its kind with more than 1.3 million data collected as of August 2014.
According to Alexa’s ranking in August 2014, Numbeo.com was among the top 10,000 websites (ranked by traffic).
What Are the World’s Safest Cities?
If you are pondering a move to a town or city overseas, safety has to be one of your chief concerns. So how do you define “safety”, and how do you measure it?
There are many different ways, but in a recent US survey of what index to use to judge if a city is safe, the majority of respondents opted for an average annual murder rate of less than 5 per 100,000 people.
numbeo is right
Ulitin ko ha, based sa ibang survey like ginawa ng Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) ng safest cities excluding Davao City, eto ang sinabi sa website nila: Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report regarding safest cities, FOCUSES ON 50 CITIES SELECTED BY The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), based on factors such as regional representation and availability of data. Therefore, it should NOT BE CONSIDERED A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF THE WORLD’S SAFEST CITIES (ie, a city coming number 50 in the list does not make it the most perilous place to live in the world).