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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/12/the_world_is_not_falling_apart_the_trend_lines_reveal_an_increasingly_peaceful.html http://ww

• cyberferret 10y ago
  I am reassured.... carry on world... (You do notice that most of the graphs lower down the page have a sharp uptick towards the far right ?!? especially "Violent Victimisation at School", "Prevalence of Mass Killings", "Rate of Death in Genocides and Other Killings", "Wars > 1000 Deaths/Year" whilst things like "Rape and Sexual Assault", "Physical Abuse", "Sexual Abuse" show a small uptrend)
• rhaps0dy 10y ago
  The "democracy vs autocracy" graph seems disingenuous, as it shows the _sum_ of scores and not the mean. If the number of democracies has been increasing, the graph may show the same trend it shows without the democracies actually being better. And the biggest shift in the graph happens, unsurprisingly, when the USSR falls, which switches the score of all its countries from one side to the other.
• pluma 10y ago
  To summarize most of these graphs: there's currently a significant increase in bad things, but overall there has been a downward trend for decades.