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Clicking through randomly, it seems that the armed victims were less likely to be killed than the unarmed victims. I wonder if the underlying data refutes that
by politician 12y ago
Clicking through randomly, it seems that the armed victims were less likely to be killed than the unarmed victims. I wonder if the underlying data refutes that observation.
- giarc 12y agoKilled Not Killed Armed________729______300 Not Armed_____211_____114 The Chi-square statistic is 4.0812. The P value is 0.043363. This result is significant at p < 0.05
- jrapdx3 12y agoYes, armed vs unarmed were different, question is in what direction. IOW were those armed more likely to be killed than the unarmed? For armed "shootees", killed/not-killed == 2.43, whereas unarmed == 1.85. Looking at it the other way, for those killed, ratio of armed/unarmed was 3.45, but only 2.63 for shooting survivors. Since the categorical data was shown to differ significantly, the difference ratios are also significant. We can conclude one is more likely to be shot dead if armed when confronted by police. Edit: grammar