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It's a higher number, but it's over a much larger area and time-span - all of Scotland, and 200 years. So it's expected there would be more cases. > this is th
by deogeo 7y ago
It's a higher number, but it's over a much larger area and time-span - all of Scotland, and 200 years. So it's expected there would be more cases.
> this is the first I'd heard of the Scottish witch craze.
That's not surprising - compared to everything else going on at the time, this seems worth little more than a footnote. During the same period, over 1 million people were enslaved in the course of the Barbary slave trade alone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade
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- thaumasiotes 7y ago> it's over a much larger area and time-span - all of Scotland, and 200 years. So it's expected there would be more cases. You're half right and half badly wrong. 10 deaths per year being a higher number is less surprising when you consider that the statistic covers a wider area. It's much more surprising if the statistic covers a huge span of time! You expect the rate to go back to something normal, not to maintain itself at severely elevated levels for 200 straight years.