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multicm t1_izecez2 wrote

Reply to Change in electricity produced by renewables per continent 2012-2022 [OC] by hcrx

I am going to be a bit nitpicky here because of the subreddit we are on. The data is interesting, but this visualization is just bad. There is a lot that could have been done. For example, putting "Increase" on a second axis as a line, or better yet, remove it altogether and instead do a stacked bar with "2010" and "Increase". Would have made the graph much simpler and more visually appealing. With this being r/dataisbeautiful the context is about how nice a graph looks not necessarily the data itself.

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647843267a t1_izec22p wrote

Reply to comment by goj-145 in [OC] Guns in the US and Canada by pigecoin69420

Auto accidents and violent crime are on a completely different level. TBH I've never reported an accident to the police before, that's the first I'm hearing that it's expected. Seems like a huge waste of their time for minor accidents.

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goj-145 t1_izeazv5 wrote

Reply to comment by 65022056 in [OC] Guns in the US and Canada by pigecoin69420

Generalizing a single country based on repeated and verifiable evidence versus other countries generally not acting in the same way, is valid data.

It's getting to the point where the Americans need their own sub to continue spreading their misinformation.

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goj-145 t1_izeas6r wrote

Reply to comment by 647843267a in [OC] Guns in the US and Canada by pigecoin69420

It's not all definitional. It's literally refusing to report or release figures that would be included in such crime statistics. Often because the police are "overloaded" which is BS.

For example for something random that is part of a statistical issue, in the US it is common for vehicle accidents NOT to be reported in the winter because many areas have statutes where police will not come to a scene and issue a ticket or even police report if the weather is bad. More and more commonly the definition has moved to basically any day with any weather because it's more profitable to give out speeding tickets than write accident reports.

You are then supposed to call and report but it's useless as it wasn't at the time and doesn't actually count to any of the statistics involving auto accidents.

Coincidentally the rate of auto accidents in the winter in most of these areas plummeted! Look how safe!

This is ILLEGAL in most places. It is illegal in the US too, but it doesn't matter because murica.

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H_Lunulata t1_ize8t2b wrote

Reply to [OC] Guns in the US and Canada by pigecoin69420

This is the first chart I've seen, in my life, that suggests that Canada has more violent and property crime than the US, per capita.

I believe there is a problem here treating two data sets as equivalent that are very much not.

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goj-145 t1_ize8fxc wrote

Reply to [OC] Guns in the US and Canada by pigecoin69420

Lol

Now go look up what constitutes various crimes and reporting in Canada vs the US.

You'll see a huge difference where the US doesn't classify a lot of things and Canada does.

This is a common fallacy Americans fall into because they assume everyone reports X the same way they do. And almost always Americans suck at reporting data because there's no cohesive system or set of rules.

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pigecoin69420 OP t1_ize7m17 wrote

Reply to [OC] Guns in the US and Canada by pigecoin69420

Full discussion of the data can be found at https://pencer.substack.com/p/guns-in-the-usa-and-canada

Sources:

Crime rates in the US (2020- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States ) and Canada (2017- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Canada )

Gun-related fatalities in the US and Canada (2017/2018- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate )

Civilian gun ownership (2017- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_guns_per_capita_by_country )

50 US states gun ownership rates (2013- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4809774/ ) and gun fatality rates (2021- https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm )

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