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"Lies, damned lies, and statistics" as they say. Serbia and Honduras are anomalies. Within the entire data set there's a significant positive correlation betwee
by 23iofj 6y ago
"Lies, damned lies, and statistics" as they say. Serbia and Honduras are anomalies. Within the entire data set there's a significant positive correlation between "Guns per 100 inhabitants" and Homicide rate.
- johnisgood 6y agoAre they really anomalies? | Country | Homicide | Guns per 100 inhabitants | | US | 4.46 | 120.5 | | Serbia | 0.72 | 37.82 | | Honduras | 28.65 | 9.9-11.24 | | | | | | Cyprus | 0.50 | 36.4 | | Canada | 0.72 | 34.70 | | Finland | 0.20 | 32.4 | | ... | | | | | | | | Jamaica | 38.20 | 5.8 | | Eswatini | 37.16 | 8.1 | | Brazil | 23.93 | 8.6 | | ... | | | Are they anomalies, too, or what do you mean by anomaly? I do not want to edit the table anymore, but someone also mentioned Switzerland, indeed, extremely low rate of firearm-related homicide (0.13) with high rate of gun ownership (27.6-41.2). There are many more.
- 23iofj 6y agoWhy cherry-pick? Just running the regression analysis on the entire dataset.
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