• bampop@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Never mind that, what does “07% per 100K” even mean? As far as I can tell that evaluates to 0.0000007 or 7 per 10 million

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        The “%” is unnecessary, yeah. I‘m guessing she meant “0.7 homicides per 100K citizens per Annum”

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        Assuming it’s .07% and not 7% since the latter wouldn’t make sense with their post, that would make it 70 out of 100,000.

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            the f*ck are you talking about, it’s simple reduction
            I can’t belive there adults that can’t pass second grade math

            If you need I can draw it for you like you do it in kindergarten

            0.7% can be written as 0.7/100 or 7/1 000 and you can then do one of following:

            (0.7/100)100 000 = 0.7(100 000/100) = 700
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            (7/1 000)100 000 = 7(100 000/1 000) = 700

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        As the other guy mentioned, 0.23% per 100,000 doesn’t make sense. That’s like saying 0.23 murders per 100 (cent) per 100,000. One of those per Xs is redundant.

        The Wikipedia page linked says Japan has a murder rate of 0.233 per 100,000 residents. If this made sense as a percent, it would mean a percentage of 0.000233%. But this statistic wouldnt work as a since a “percentage” implies a fraction of a whole, for example 50% of a population is born male.

        The original statistic under discussion says that there are “X number of murder cases per 100,000 people living in country”, rather than “Y% of the country’s population is murder victims”, which wouldn’t make sense anyway since the dead aren’t part of the population; i.e. you wouldn’t see a statistic like “20% of the population is dead” but rather “20% of the population died”, and “90% of the deaths were by murder” rather than “18% of the population is murder victims”.

        Thank you for attending my TED talk.

        Edit: formatting