The child saw the handgun in the parents’ bedroom and put it in his mouth, where it went off.

[beevul]

137. Uh huh. I'm well aware of how statistics work.

I live near a small town we'll just call bumfuck, for sake of discussion.

"Bumfuck" has a real, factual and true population of 34 people.


If someone commits suicide in "Bumfuck" with a gun, thats 1 in 34.


Thats a RATE of 2941 per 100k. If one were to look ONLY at that rate, it would seem bumfuck has a suicide epidemic of monumental proportions on their hands, wouldn't it? Gee, is there something in their water or what?

What the "rate" folks do, is to note places like Montana and other states/places with a small population, and then use a rate based on that small population.

On the other side of the coin, a larger population example of say 20 million, with the same rate, would have 1188200 hypothetical suicides. For sake of discussion, well call it "megaville".

So say this hypothetical city of megaville DOES have a gun suicide epidemic. Say 100000 commit suicide with guns. Thats 200 per 100k. A rate roughly 14.5 times lower that Bumfuck. If one ignores the exact numbers, it sure looks like bumfuck has a huge problem on their hands, compared to megaville, doesnt it?


Have a nice day.