Starving_Artist:
Hmm…well, when you’re wrong, you’re wrong, eh? Looks like I screwed the pooch on that one. I apologize.
At several points in the accompanying article it mentions crime rates indexed per hundred thousand, so, it being late and me freshly arrived home from a friend’s birthday party where both beer and bourbon were at various times served, I utterly failed to pick up on the fact that the raw data had not been indexed per hundred thousand, which amusingly enough was my belief at the time. However, even I don’t think, in the cold light of day, that there has ever been a time when the U.S. has been experiencing 15,000 murders per 100,000 citizens. Hopefully the message contained in the Wiki crime graphs I linked to still support my underlying thesis, but as I’m posting from an iPod right now I’ll have to revisit them later.
Again my apologies, and good catch, rogerbox .
Why did you bother, though? I had given you the per capita homicide rate in the post you were responding to.
Hey there, how often does an SDMB avowed conservative actually apologize for being factually wrong? Less than 1% of their factual wrongness. I don’t feel like hammering away at someone for doing the right thing.