3. Suicide more prevalent than homicide in US, but most Americans don't know it. Ne...

Suicide more prevalent than homicide in US, but most Americans don't know it. News reports, movies and TV shows may contribute to the perception of a high risk of firearm homicide, leaving a substantial gap between ideas and reality and potentially leading to further danger.

Well, technically, you are right. People presenting stats should usually normalize the stats.

My favorite example of not normalizing stats are heat maps of activity in the US. If you don't normalize the numbers to adjust for population density, then all the maps just turn out to be population density maps.

I assume it's just politics. One of the nasty tricks of statistics is feature selection. One question we should ask ourselves when we see stats is, 'Why did they choose to run statistics on topic A instead of topic B?'

For example, you might see news about statistics on white men killing themselves with guns or opiods instead of statistics about white men killing themselves because they lost work or formed a lethal addiction after being prescribed opiods for injuries from dangerous work conditions.

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