> You can see for yourself both in terms of rate per population and total(!) prison population: Right, but the US has many differences that could factor in to

> You can see for yourself both in terms of rate per population and total(!) prison population: Right, but the US has many differences that could factor in to those numbers being different. How do you determine the signals from the noise? > Even, otherwise it suggests something is wrong with society that needs to be fixed. I agree with the idea that large discrepancies require investigation, but I don't see how you could expect extremely large, different groups (defining those groups being a massive challenge alone) of people to have the exact same outcomes. That seems statistically nearly impossible.