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Homicide rate per 100k in the Americas (feddit.org)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by MrLoewenzahn@feddit.org to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Greenland has a population of only 56k, so difference between zero and American numbers is literally 3 kills.

As they say, statistics are the worst kind of lies

[–] usrtrv@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 days ago

Bingo. I'm sure people could make some great "murder is up/down 300%" clickbait headlines.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

-Mark Twain

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, was referencing this

[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 8 points 1 day ago

Yeah. Was thinking why is Greenland so high until I remembered Greenland doesn't even have 100k people in it, so any amount of homicides was gonna drag that number right up

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 day ago

a person is born in iceland
population doubles

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago

But also, Greenland has a ton of social issues. They're been transitioning from hunter-gatherer (well, mostly hunter) to "modern life" way faster than people in europe or the US did, while still living on a giant block of ice.