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California's youth gun homicide rate dropped 50% between 2006-2022. Over the same period, Texas's rate rose 49% and Florida's rate rose 23% (lemmy.world)

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Source: OAG Data

Interesting that California's was higher than Florida/Texas until 2007 and 2015.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Does “per 100,000” refer to the entire population, or the population under 25? If the former, could some of the differences be accounted for by changing demographics?

That’s what age-adjustment prevents.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

So if I understand that right, the “per 100,000” figures aren’t for the exact populations, but for what the populations would be if the age groups were re-weighted to keep the age demographics constant?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Right, it imposes the collected data on a chosen model population. I wish it told you what that population was, but I don’t see it.

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