• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The US has five(!) times the murders per capita

    Roughly 5.75 per 100,000 people/year, versus 1.33 per 100,000. So closer to 4x. But even then, we’re talking about a 0.04% change in incidence.

    A bit like saying you’re 5x as likely to win the lottery.

    • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      France is at around 1.3, Germany at around 0.9, UK somewhere in between, if a quick search is to be trusted.

      And I think change in incidence is a weird way to express this. Yes, the average person is not likely to die of homicide, even in “unsafe” countries. But at the same time, the chance of a man to get testicular cancer is around 0.01%; if I would be 5 times as likely to get testicular cancer than the people from other places, I would very much want to look into that.