Kevin Tarr wrote: > I found a web site which had an excel file with international crime data: > > http://www.aic.gov.au/stats/international/ > > Hardly a rigorous study: I took the data and did some things with it. I > divided each incident of crime by the population, averaged each crime > statistic and 'normalized'* the crime average for each country to the > average homicide rate. Then I averaged the crimes for each country. I made > two lists, the first row is without the prison population included as a > statistic, the second includes it, the third is the rank with the prison > population. > > Call it The Chance That Something Will Happen to You. > > New Zealand 10.35% 9.45% 2
Huh? Now that I call surprising. What do they do in New Zealand that they are number 2 as to the relative amount of people in prison in this list? Sonja _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
