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Assuming you know how statistics work, one shooting in a county with 50 people will skew the stats. But spend some time in your average rural area and then in D
by yucky 4y ago
Assuming you know how statistics work, one shooting in a county with 50 people will skew the stats. But spend some time in your average rural area and then in Detroit, Baltimore, etc. and compare notes. And no, not the trendy 2 block area with the breweries, the area where people actually live.
- kasey_junk 4y agoWhat stat can you possibly use to quantify your argument that shouldn’t be a per capita stat? And for what it’s worth Phillips County was averaging 8 gun deaths a year across that time period for a place that has less than 20k people. That’s a shocking stat even with “small” numbers.
- yucky 4y agoIt's simple, Detroit has been one of the top cities for murders rate for over 50 years straight. A shooting in a random year will not produce an anomaly there like some random county one year that has a shooting. You're trying to take a small sample size as if it means something. And yet where would you rather be caught at with no phone and no car, some small town or the east side of Detroit? I do find it interesting that you used a predominantly black rural area hoping it would prove a different point though.
- kasey_junk 4y ago> Detroit has been one of the top cities for murder rate for over 50 years straight How does that relate statistically to urban vs rural crime rates? You didn’t make an argument about Detroit. You made one about rural vs city generally. > where would you rather be caught When I was 13 years old I witnessed 2 teenagers being assaulted by a crowd of adults with firearms in a rural location while working on a farm for the summer. I’ve never experienced anything scarier since. I don’t extrapolate that experience out to all rural locations though so I’m not sure. I think urban just for the transportation options. > you used a predominantly black rural area I didn’t. Tptacek did. I just looked up their stats to see if it was an obvious anomaly. It wasn’t. You also didn’t make a point about race. Your point was about rural vs urban. Perhaps you’d like to make a further point?