Gun Ownership Neither Increases Nor Decreases the Crime Rate

[DanTex]

88. Umm, yes I did. Unless my stats software is broken, or I entered the data wrong (a possibility),

then, yes, I found a statistically significant correlation.

I picked the top 30 HDI countries because 30 is a nice round number, and it looked like a good cutoff as to what is meant by "developed". I could only find data for 27 of them. I didn't cherry pick at all. I picked all the countries before I did the analysis. If you want, go ahead and do the top 40, or the top 20, you'll probably find a similar result.

Remember, your blogger is the guy who said that there is no way to pick a set of countries to get a positive correlation, much less a significant positive correlation. This is obviously a lie, or else the guy is an idiot who has never heard of HDI. Either way, that's not someone you want to be associated with. At least I hope not.

Why is HDI better than G-20? Because G-20 is a based on total economic power, which is a function of population as well as economic strength. That's why you get countries like Russia and Brazil and China, which are nothing like the US. If you want to pick the top 20 countries by per capita GDP, that would make more sense.

As you told me earlier, if you want to claim confounding, go right ahead. Take a look at the peer reviewed multivariate analyses among US counties which I linked to. But stop trying to claim that there's no international correlation between gun ownership and homicide among highly developed nations similar to the US. There is one. Period.