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I notice a correlation between the cities studied and race. I am surprised that this obvious variable was not taken into account.
by programmernews3 10y ago
I notice a correlation between the cities studied and race. I am surprised that this obvious variable was not taken into account.
- mikeash 10y agoWhat correlation, exactly? Picking a few cities from the list and comparing racial demographics and the relative shooting/murder rates, I didn't see much connection.
- grardb 10y agoThis ^ Quick examples: Minneapolis, Boston, Nashville, and Cincinnati all have much higher percentages of non-Hispanic whites than Los Angeles and New York. Even if we look at black or Hispanic/Latino percentages: * Minneapolis: 18.6% black, 10.5% Hispanic/Latino * New York: 25.1% black, 27.5% Hispanic/Latino * Los Angeles: 9.6% black, 48.5% Hispanic/Latino I wouldn't go so far as to say that the data is "all over the place," but I would definitely not say there's a correlation with race.
- programmernews3 10y agowww.washingtonpost.com/sf/feature/wp/2013/03/22/gun-deaths-shaped-by-race-in-america/ Non-Hispanic blacks (2.8 per 1,000) and Hispanics (2.2 per 1,000) had higher rates of nonfatal firearm violence than non-Hispanic whites (1.4 per 1,000) https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/press/fv9311pr.cfm https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/press/fv9311pr.cfm http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/firearms-death-rate-by-raceethnicity/?currentTimeframe=0&selectedDistributions=white--black--other http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/firearms-death-rate-by-...
- mikeash 10y agoThe topic here is not overall gun violence, but specifically the percentage of shootings that result in death, and the fact that this percentage is extremely different in different cities.