(Emphasis mine.) This article is a goldmine of Fox Butterfieldisms. "The U.S. gun violence death rate is also higher than in nearly all countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including many that are among the world's poorest." Yes, because the poorest use machetes.
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The best chart here, though, is this one, which is ridiculous in many ways. The main problem is that it covers a very short period and is therefore biased toward tiny countries. The population of Oman is 4.4 million, Singapore is 5.6 million, and Iceland is 350 thousand.pic.twitter.com/yEVgfcBv4s
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This chart is telling you that Oman had two 'violent gun deaths' in 2017, Singapore had one, and Iceland had...uh...1/4th of a death. Somehow. Using a single year for your analysis means the bottom of the list will have a lot of tiny countries that got lucky.
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One footnote (out of many I could add here): Iceland is swimming in guns.https://www.ibtimes.com/iceland-plenty-guns-hardly-any-violence-1021958 …
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Second footnote: To illustrate my point about the 'burstiness' of the rate in small countries, here's a UN study on global homicide from 2011: https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/Homicide/Globa_study_on_homicide_2011_web.pdf … Go to page 106 and look at Anguilla -- it's the first row under 'Caribbean'.
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Anguilla's yearly murder rate per 100k, starting in 1995 and ending in 2008: 10.2, 0, 9.8, 0, 0, 9.0, 16.7, 15.9, 7.6, 7.4, 28.6, 27.8, 6.8 Some years it's a paradise, other years it's a war zone? No! Its population is less than fifteen thousand, that's all.
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Likewise, Iceland's rate varies between 0 and 1.9 (p. 111). Doesn't break out gun murders, but Iceland's swimming in them as already noted, so... Point is, using a short interval and aggregating the top (bottom) ten is going to amplify noise. It's a terrible basis of comparison.
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There are a LOT of problems here, it's hard to pick out a primary problem because they're all so misleading.
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Don't include Central American countries. Because being in the same hemisphere is irrelevant. Mark Twain said; "There are three kinds of lies. Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics". I di believe this entire premise rests on Statistics, you decide.
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