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I really want to see a heat map of this phenomena. I have a feeling there is strong geographic and urban/rural differences here. I would also like to see the pe
by voidlogic 12y ago
I really want to see a heat map of this phenomena. I have a feeling there is strong geographic and urban/rural differences here. I would also like to see the percentage of the population that has been arrested by age.
This statistic is definitely not representative of where I live, that being said I don't disbelieve it, I just want to understand the details.
P.S. I am also disgusted when children are charged as adults. Maybe (probably) there needs to be a middle classification of age legally, but lacking that, it is better to error by being to lenient for the youth. The other day I saw a 12 year old girl was being changed with murder, as an adult- ridiculous!
- Tloewald 12y agoIt's pretty hard to imagine you can get figures like this without it being prevalent in urban areas.
- nmrm 12y agohttp://xkcd.com/1138/ http://xkcd.com/1138/
- voidlogic 12y agoThis is often true, but until you see the heat map you don't know that. When its not true, things get interesting. I think this case may not completely match the joke. In this case, I have a feeling due to issues of poverty and education that, for example, the rural South might have a higher arrest rate then the rural Midwest even at locales of similar population density.
- CanSpice 12y agoI think you missed the point of that XKCD. If you're going to publish a heatmap of absolute numbers, then yes, it'll end up looking pretty much like a population distribution map. If you publish a heatmap of percentages, then you will probably get something quite different (assuming that the percentage isn't linearly correlated with population).