Gun Death Comparisons by Country

[Benton]

(12-08-2015, 01:46 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I disagree. Eliminating armed, military conflicts makes it more objective. Armed conflicts would create outliers in the data that would further skew the results. From a statistical standpoint, eliminating those conflicts eliminates confounders in the data making the information more accurate with regards to the topic at hand.

The problem is there's no reliable way to know if someone shot in Syria was shot because he was robbed or because he was in the middle of an armed conflict. So a number of countries that may have a high number of gun related deaths are discounted because of recognized discord.