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Wisconsin | ccjersey - 9/10/2024 08:40
If you think about those results you can see that with small numbers of “events” random chance has a lot to do with the averages.
Here’s an analysis that explains in depth why no one should rely on that data. It’s not that it’s inaccurate, it’s that it doesn’t tell you what you think it does.
http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2015/07/De-Obfuscating-the-Stati...
We can agree to remove Norway from that list, "everybody's favorite outlier", those bloodthirsty organic farmers and all.
One outlier is expected, half of them being outliers is just not how statistics work. Your link shows a comparison of rich countries, with more restrictive gun laws, and the take away is that the US has a "mass shooter death rate" 4x that of Canada and UK, 2x that of Germany and Netherlands and the non US average, and interestingly 10x France? If we want to see a more accurate reflection of the affect of gun laws, we should balance the comparison to Norway and Germany with a comparison to Mexico, Guatemala and Congo based on ancestry.
Edited by junk fun 9/11/2024 08:51
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