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The 0.13 murderers per year were Old Etonians, so need to be divided by that population. Assuming alumni live on average another 50 years, the murderer rate per
by hdbsbdjdndn 4y ago
The 0.13 murderers per year were Old Etonians, so need to be divided by that population. Assuming alumni live on average another 50 years, the murderer rate per 100,000 would be 1.13, compared with the homicide rate of 1.17 for England and Wales in 2020. [1]
[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/articles/homicideinenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2020 https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeand...
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- Retric 4y agoMurder rate counts victims not killers, one of these guys killed 9 people. Also, only including people who got caught very likely under reports the numbers.
- btilly 4y agoBut murder is mostly committed by young men. And 3 out of 4 of the Etonian murderers were below 30 at the time of the murder. So this correction is not as big as you think.
- hdbsbdjdndn 4y agoThe murderer rate for young alumni of Eton would be higher, but so would the rate for young people generally. In fact, the correction would be even bigger as Eton is a boys-only school and the homicide rate for the wider population was for both men and women.
- dmurray 4y agoThis is the right calculation. It baffles me that there are so many comments assuming the homicides are committed by current students. Correct it further for the fact that convicted murderers are overwhelmingly male (93% according to your same source) and old Etonians begin to look downright peaceful. But that wouldn't make a good article.