Ferman
April 11, 2018, 5:24pm
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https://crimeresearch.org/2017/04/number-murders-county-54-us-counties-2014-zero-murders-69-1-murder/
Take what you will from it, but:
“One should not put much weight on this purely “cross-sectional” evidence over one point in time and many factors determine murder rates, but it is still interesting to note that so much of the country has both very high gun ownership rates and zero murders.”
Gimli
April 11, 2018, 5:34pm
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Correlation doesn’t prove causation. But it dosn’t mean that the correlated is wrong. Too many people use correlation as proof that it is irrelevant.
Russell Ward
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Ferman
April 11, 2018, 5:37pm
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The comments on the articles are interesting too.
It doesn’t take into account population density though. I wonder what that will show when factored in.
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Just looking at the map without any context, I’d say it’s a map of population density.
It’s not really shocking to know there are more murders where there are more people. Why, I’d wager if there were a county with zero residents, it would have a low murder rate.
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mblatz
April 11, 2018, 5:57pm
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Some very thoughtful discussion in the commentary following the article as well.
Ferman
April 11, 2018, 5:57pm
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Here’s what google says on population density.
Go Texas!
The states and territories included in the United States Census Bureau's statistics for the United States population, ethnicity, and most other categories include the 50 states and Washington, D.C. Separate statistics are maintained for the five permanently inhabited territories of the United States: Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
As of April 1, 2010, the date of the 2010 United States Census, the nine most populous U.S. states c...
Nick
April 11, 2018, 6:40pm
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Here are the 2 maps overlayed with the murder map changed to Blue.
Population may be part, but there are a lot of population centers that are not on the murder map.
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Ferman
April 11, 2018, 6:55pm
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How about throwing this into the mix.
Without the article.
https://demographics.virginia.edu/DotMap/index.html
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Nick
April 11, 2018, 8:06pm
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The variation of that map is too fine of detail and have too many colors to easily discern when over layered on the other maps. Just too much shit.