Wisconsin | ccjersey - 9/11/2024 09:20
The point of the article is not that any specific country is naturally an outlier. It’s that for events that happen rarely, countries with smaller population sizes are always going to be outliers.
Solution is to combine a bunch of countries together so their population is similar to ours. When you combine all the others and compare them to us, the comparison is pretty stark.
And I hope you noticed that Mexico is in that list………..way down below us…….A country where drug cartels intimidate the army has fewer mass shootings than the USA.
I’m not real enthusiastic about making us look better by comparing to Congo and Guatemala.
Norway is an outlier that we can dismiss because of one disgruntled organic farmer, Mexico numbers can be dismissed because they're ludicrous on their face.
Remove the ridiculous mexico numbers and the other bad data, and the US rate is probably 50% higher than the rest of the OECD, double the rate of the rest according to that data.
And over the last century, I'd take the US's record over any of those other countries, with the possible exception of Canada or Switzerland. I'm not interested in changing the constitution in reaction to short term epidemics.
You're confusing "outlier" with natural distribution. Norway and Mexico are outliers for the reasons stated. The rest of the small countries just have a more random variation than the Germany or US. Perhaps the public does not understand statistics, and the article gives a better explanation of the numbers than the headline.
Edited by junk fun 9/11/2024 11:57
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