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I remember a common saying that's bandied about Hacker News: a 10x quantitative difference is a qualitative difference. Well, America's violent crime rate is 1
by ddxxdd 7y ago
I remember a common saying that's bandied about Hacker News: a 10x quantitative difference is a qualitative difference.
Well, America's violent crime rate is 10 times higher than Europe's violent crime rate, so make of that what you will.
- flattone 7y agoParse attempt: there are too significant systemic, social differences to meaningfully compare process&results between countries.
- maxerickson 7y agoHalf the point is that systemic differences contribute to different outcomes, so lets change the system. What a sad rejoinder to argue that the system is a force of nature.
- mlyle 7y agoSome bits of the system we can change with effort. Urban poverty, etc, can improve. We can have a better criminal justice system. Some are cultural bits in subpopulations that are resistant to change; we can work on it, but it's not clear how much of an effect any intervention will have. There's some other structural ones that will be extremely difficult to change-- we have the some of the most dangerous places in the world next-door in Latin America.