Dessalines to Data Is [email protected] • 1 year agoWorld Incarceration Rates If Every U.S. State Were A Country (No other country even makes the first page)lemmy.mlimagemessage-square75fedilinkarrow-up1302
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-21 year agoI don’t get this graph. So all of US has a smaller incarceration rate than just Louisiana? What?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•1 year agoThats how averages work, unlike eg maximums. But Im sure reversing that chart would correlate with math test scores.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•1 year agoThe entire US would have the average of all the states’ incarceration rates.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•edit-21 year agoThe US average falls in the middle of the list of states, yes. This is a chart of per capita rates.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink9•edit-21 year agoi have 4 boxes labeled A to D, and 10 rocks. i put 1 rock in A, 2 in B, 3 in C and 4 in D. A[⚪] B[⚪⚪] C[⚪⚪⚪] D[⚪⚪⚪⚪] i then paint 1 rock in B, 2 rocks in C and 1 rock in D. A[⚪] B[⚪🔴] C[⚪🔴🔴] D[⚪⚪⚪🔴] then i put the boxes in a bigger box called the united boxes. here’s the rate of painted rocks: C 66% (2/3) B 50% (1/2) United boxes 40% (4/10) D 25% (1/4) A 0% (0/1)
I don’t get this graph. So all of US has a smaller incarceration rate than just Louisiana? What?
Thats how averages work, unlike eg maximums.
But Im sure reversing that chart would correlate with math test scores.
The entire US would have the average of all the states’ incarceration rates.
The US average falls in the middle of the list of states, yes. This is a chart of per capita rates.
Yes, look up what per capita means.
i have 4 boxes labeled A to D, and 10 rocks.
i put 1 rock in A, 2 in B, 3 in C and 4 in D.
i then paint 1 rock in B, 2 rocks in C and 1 rock in D.
then i put the boxes in a bigger box called the united boxes.
here’s the rate of painted rocks: