https://xkcd.com/2733/ https://xkcd.com/2733/ What a weird way to phrase a headline. From the article, it seems US population grew 2% and pedestrian deaths by

https://xkcd.com/2733/ https://xkcd.com/2733/ What a weird way to phrase a headline. From the article, it seems US population grew 2% and pedestrian deaths by 18%. But why relate those two numbers? If the US population declined by 1%, that would not really affect the story at all, but the headline would turn into nonsense. The population is stable, so it's not really important. But even if it is, you could just turn the pedestrian deaths into a per-100k number like a homicide rate.