07-02-2015, 08:19 AM
(07-02-2015, 02:24 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Scotland and Northern Ireland are part of the UK, why were they not included in the UK for purposes of this debunking? I'm not saying that their inclusion would prove the claim true, but anytime there's such a blatant omission it makes one wonder does it not?
From the same link:
Quote:We thought Bier’s points were reasonable, so we tried to replicate his approach. We looked at the raw violent crime numbers for each country, using statistics for England and Wales for 2012 and for the United States for 2011, in a way that sought to compare apples to apples. (We should note that the United Kingdom includes Scotland and Northern Ireland, but the numbers in the meme appear to be based only on crime in England and Wales, which are calculated separately.)
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