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Originally Posted by someone123
It's not disingenuous, it's how the statistics work. The rate is the number of murders divided by the number of people. If you're looking at the number of murders for a given area, you need to divide by the number of people in the same area. You can't mix and match murder counts from one place and the population from another place...
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Not if you're comparing apples to watermelons.
that's why you can't mix and match completely different area's in size & call them the same. Saskatoon City number of murders is the same as Saskatoon CMA number of murders even though CMA has 80,000 more people, that makes the rate drastically smaller for the CMA as a whole.
Halifax would be the same, even though total number of murders would be largely the same in Halifax City as
Halifax
Regional
Municipipality, Halifax City murder rate is probably a lot higher than the HRM that includes 20% of rest of the province countryside that isn't in another regional municipality.
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Originally Posted by someone123
...My post wasn't about which city has more murders. The small counts in small cities are pretty much just noise from one year to another anyway. You can't look at them and conclude much.
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That's why you have to compare smaller areas averaged over longer periods of time.
Halifax averaged 10 murders/year from 2007-2016, Saskatoon averaged 8 in same decade of time. Rate of 2.45 compared to 2.63,
very similar... that's how statistics work.