Thread: Darwin is getting slow in his old age.

Yup, the paper that koshogi posted a link to was very interesting reading. Would help the debate a lot if there was more solid research as opposed to little snippits taken out of context just to support a particular side.

and res, yeah stats can be used to prove just about anything

i prefer looking at long term graphs for trends. whenever words are attached to it for an interpretation, things can get pretty screwy...

take the 39% drop in homicides "factoid"... the year used as the start of that "fact" was 93, the rate per 100k in US was 7.07 (Krug, E G, K E Powell and L L Dahlberg. 1998. ‘Firearm-Related Deaths in the United States and 35 Other High- and Upper-Middle-Income Countries.’ International Journal of Epidemiology; Table 1 (27), p. 216. Atlanta: National Centre for Injury Prevention & Control, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention / CDC. 16 April.)

but then if you look at this (http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/co...f_gun_homicide), a picture paints a very different story...

if the link does not work, go to http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-states, click on Gun Homicides, and then the chart link next to Rate / 100K.