Another shooting in the USA. Remind me about the reason for having guns again. - by SubJeff
TheHurley on 15/9/2012 at 06:36
Quote Posted by Brethren
Even if you take their guns away, they're still wacko, psychotic, dangerous individuals. That's the real problem. Sure, having access to a gun might make it easier for them to do crazy things, but guys like Jeffery Dahmer and Ted Kazcynski never needed one.
YEA. we in the stated have a monopoly on crazy.:eek:
Chimpy Chompy on 3/10/2012 at 18:34
Well a properly quantified x-axis would be a nice start.
Lazarus411 on 3/10/2012 at 18:38
..but look at it another way. The US isn't afraid to go to war with a bunch of ak-47 and homemade rocket launcher toting "towel heads", while Europe is full of surrender monkeys. Could there be a connection?
faetal on 3/10/2012 at 18:46
I'd imagine the x axis is almost certainly going to be Gini coefficient.
The US is an outlier anyway, suggesting that perhaps income inequality isn't responsible for all of their crazy.
Gini coefficient of 0 means that everyone in the country has equal wealth, value of 100 means that one person has all of the wealth. US has a Gini coefficient of 53, which is one of the worst in the developed world. The cost of living increase is only outpaced by the top few percent. Rich get richer, poor get poorer etc...
Vivian on 3/10/2012 at 19:07
Seeing as I'm coding this shit at the moment:
- are the data normally distributed, homoscedastic, linear etc
- like you say, what happens when you take the US out of that
- what're the stats on that line
- can you put enough black dicks in there to keep Lazarus411 from mentioning towel heads again
Lazarus411 on 3/10/2012 at 19:19
towel heads is lame. I should've gone with sand niggers.
faetal on 3/10/2012 at 19:59
If you're really interested, I'm guessing it wouldn't be too much grind to get the Gini coefficients (or equivalent inequality metric) and plot it against homocides PPPY and run some stats on it.
It looks as though the list of countries is quite selective too, I'd like to see a broader selection. It may not even be a linear relationship, so a log plot or other transformed plot would be worth checking.
Chimpy Chompy on 3/10/2012 at 21:11
So wait, if everyone in a country was equally miserably poor would the Gini coefficient be 0? Is that... good?
faetal on 3/10/2012 at 21:38
You find me a country where having a Gini coefficient of 0 would mean everyone was miserably poor. Simply divide the GDP by the population and factor it against cost of living.
Or, if we're going for ridiculous extremes - which is preferable, 0 or 100?
