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In other news, about 2% of the US counties have about 51% of the population. The problem isn't the distribution, it's the rate of murders when compared with ot
by JohnGB 9y ago
In other news, about 2% of the US counties have about 51% of the population.
The problem isn't the distribution, it's the rate of murders when compared with other industrialised states.
- evmar 9y agoRelevant xkcd making this point: https://xkcd.com/1138/ https://xkcd.com/1138/
- _fizz_buzz_ 9y agoAgreed, this statistic is meaningless[1]: Los Angeles County, California population: 10,137,915 Kalawao County, Hawaii population: 88 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_statistics_of_the_United_States#Population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_statistics_of_the_Unite...
- titzer 9y agoRTFA. > The worst 1% of counties have 19% of the population and 37% of the murders. The worst 5% of counties contain 47% of the population and account for 68% of murders. As shown in figure 2, over half of murders occurred in only 2% of counties. It's interesting to see what happens to the US rate when these worst offenders are taken out: > In 2014, the murder rate was 4.4 per 100,000 people. If the 1% of the counties with the worst number of murders somehow were to become a separate country, the murder rate in the rest of the US would have been only 3.4 in 2014. Removing the worst 2% or 5% would have reduced the US rate to just 3.06 or 2.56 per 100,000, respectively.