Dessalines@lemmy.ml to Data Is Beautiful@lemmy.ml · 17 days agoWorld Incarceration Rates If Every U.S. State Were A Country (No other country even makes the first page)lemmy.mlimagemessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareCoreidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-217 days agoI don’t get this graph. So all of US has a smaller incarceration rate than just Louisiana? What?
minus-squaretonyn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·17 days agoThe entire US would have the average of all the states’ incarceration rates.
minus-squareAstridWipenaugh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·17 days agoThe US average falls in the middle of the list of states, yes. This is a chart of per capital rates.
minus-squareDessalines@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·17 days agoYes, look up what per capita means.
minus-squareEvil_Shrubbery@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·17 days agoThats how averages work, unlike eg maximums. But Im sure reversing that chart would correlate with math test scores.
minus-squarepyre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-217 days 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?
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 capital rates.
Yes, look up what per capita means.
Thats how averages work, unlike eg maximums.
But Im sure reversing that chart would correlate with math test scores.
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: