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South Africa has as many murders as all the blue together (i.redd.it)

submitted 4 days ago by ooli3@sopuli.xyz to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Like, comparing it to China or India?

Comparing absolute numbers in a statistic like this is particularly egregious. At least make it per-capita. May as well compare the number of murders per year in the continental US to the number of murders per year in the entire polar regions. Shock, horror, American so violent!

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago

For example, using absolute numbers from Wikipedia...
South Africa: 27,272
Haiti + Philippines + Ecuador: 28,509

That map would look very different.

You're right that using absolute numbers in the first place is bad practice.