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this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2025
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Like, comparing it to China or India?
Comparing absolute numbers in a statistic like this is particularly egregious. At least make it per-capita. May as well compare the number of murders per year in the continental US to the number of murders per year in the entire polar regions. Shock, horror, American so violent!
For example, using absolute numbers from Wikipedia...
South Africa: 27,272
Haiti + Philippines + Ecuador: 28,509
That map would look very different.
You're right that using absolute numbers in the first place is bad practice.