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I feel like the comparison of deaths abroad to total population of the US is a bit disingenuous. Surely, not all 316 millions travelled abroad, or travelled abr
by marcolussetti 9y ago
I feel like the comparison of deaths abroad to total population of the US is a bit disingenuous. Surely, not all 316 millions travelled abroad, or travelled abroad for a significant amount of time, and so on. So comparing this arbitrary ratio to the homicides occurring in the US seems to me like comparing apple to oranges.
I wonder whether something like homicides per total days spent abroad by Americans might be a more interesting measure.
- kwoff 9y agoI thought that was weird too (several other things on the site seem that way at first, until they explain something like "oh by the way, we filtered only for murders, terrorist acts, etc., not naively by number of deaths"), but it's the definition of "per capita" that is weird. If you look at the table, per capita is number of murders per travellers (to that country) times 100000, which seems fairly reasonable, though indeed the amount of time there also should factor into it (maybe I still didn't read far enough :).