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BizSuitStacy I didn’t see your earlier comment, the one about how there’s supposedly no correlation between population density and violent crime, last time I commented. After I went back and read it I admit I had to think about it awhile before I realized the biggest reason that comment doesn’t disprove my point about the correlation between population density and violent crime. You said DC ranks 4th in firearm homicide rate
per capita (I assume you meant per capita, not per capital) but only 103rd in population density. “Per capita” means you already controlled for population density. Let me tell you what that’s like.
That’s like if you were playing different sounds for mice and then making them run a maze to get a piece of cheese. You took four groups of mice, and for half an hour let each group listen to a different one of the following four sounds: flute, saxophone, trombone, banjo, each at say 10,000 Hz. The group that listened to the flute consistently ran the maze the fastest, so you conclude that playing higher frequency sound helps mice complete the maze faster. But that’s wrong, because, as I said above, all the mice listened to the same frequency of sound, 10,000 Hz.
Now who’s the dumbass?