The Heritage Foundation data sources contradict its report that the US city with the 30th highest rate of homicide was 2.4 / 100K. One of their referenced sources- "CHR&R" (footnote 25) - has more than 1K counties with higher homicide rates. Here's that data. Relevant links are in the comments. [OC]Submitted by quantuminous t3_zstol2 in dataisbeautiful
LanchestersLaw t1_j1af69w wrote
Reply to comment by quantuminous in The Heritage Foundation data sources contradict its report that the US city with the 30th highest rate of homicide was 2.4 / 100K. One of their referenced sources- "CHR&R" (footnote 25) - has more than 1K counties with higher homicide rates. Here's that data. Relevant links are in the comments. [OC] by quantuminous
I applaud what was surely many hours painstaking looking for truth in the face of lazy lies.
quantuminous OP t1_j1amkop wrote
Thanks for the feedback. Luckily I'm a nut about collecting demographics and frequently testing out different ideas as conversations come up, so I had already done most of the work before the article. I had even already included their data source in my data.
Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments