Mr Khan said:
The key is that it has a lot to do with homogeneity. Societies that have a lot of "otherness" whether this is economic, religious, or ethnic, are going to have more violence than countries that don't. Japan, for instance, has rock-bottom gun ownership rates and rock-bottom crime rates, due to a perceived larger degree of homogeneity (although the Japanese like to believe that they're more homogenous than they actually are, but that belief plays a positive rule in minimizing internal strife). |
Not sure how big a factor that is in Finland compaired to say... Spain.
Either way, graph is really starting to bug me, since the USA is a clear outlier, and is the clear driver of the numbers... so i pulled out my old statistics program and ran the numbers myself... or at least... I want to.... But i can't seem to find remotely matchig data.
It looks like it lists Portugals homicde rate at ~35 per million. When the Data I can find shows Portugals murder rate at 12 Per million. So... I'm kinda confused where they go their data from.
They have Sweeden at 20... when it should be more like 10...
Norway has less income inequality then Japan.... What the heck kind of numbrers are they useing?
