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ZenGum · 02-19-2013, 05:03 PM

The data may well be from the UN, but how they choose to group the data is up to them.

Especially, not the murder rates in the second graph. The first category is 0 to 5 per 100,000. This puts the entire OECD in one category, lime green. So (numbers from memory here) Australia's 1.2 per 100,000 and the US's 4.8 per 100,000 are made to look the same, when one is four times as much as the other.

So ... half truth. Homicide rates are a result of *many* factors - economic factors, social cohesion, effectiveness of police, cultural practices, medical facilities AND availability of means to kill. Focus on the OECD only, rejig the colour scale to give better resolution at the OECD end of the data, and you'd find the US not quite so rosy after all.

02-19-2013, 05:03 PM	#501
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	The data may well be from the UN, but how they choose to group the data is up to them. Especially, not the murder rates in the second graph. The first category is 0 to 5 per 100,000. This puts the entire OECD in one category, lime green. So (numbers from memory here) Australia's 1.2 per 100,000 and the US's 4.8 per 100,000 are made to look the same, when one is four times as much as the other. So ... half truth. Homicide rates are a result of many factors - economic factors, social cohesion, effectiveness of police, cultural practices, medical facilities AND availability of means to kill. Focus on the OECD only, rejig the colour scale to give better resolution at the OECD end of the data, and you'd find the US not quite so rosy after all. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.