RE: Re: knife ban going to work?

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Fri, 26 May 2006, Brian Azzopardi wrote:

> You bring up an important point: IMO the homicide rate per million is
> too coarse a statistic. 
>
> Splitting the data along demographic and geographic lines, while prolly
> not PC would be more illuminating. I have a hunch that most of middle
> America and middle England would have a very similar homicide rate. Pure
> speculation on my part but I think it's the outliers which skew the
> results.
 
What do you mean by "middle England"? I don't know of any area by that 
name.

I think what you're trying to say, is that if you look carefully, you'll 
find a part of America where the homicide rate is lower than the average. 
I'm sure that's true. You might even find a part of England where the 
homicide rate per million is higher than that low part of the USA. And 
then you can feel good about it.

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