• spooksboots@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is not an argument about whether or not the stats are accurate but: I think they’re talking about the US, not the world.

    • zepheriths@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      If that is the case than 827,000 people are shot every day in the US… That’s not right either.

      It’s literally math for what they are saying when one person out of 400 is shot and it is scaled up to the US population. Even if it was rounded from .5 in a set of 400 that’s still over 400k The actual number is 316 per day. Still a bad number but that is .1% of the number they have given

      • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 year ago

        By my math, at this scale it would be one person shot roughly every 7 years. That’s still kinda scary.

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            1 year ago

            The number provided in the post is inaccurate to a real-world scale of US shootings. One person shot every seven years is instead accurate to real world data if the US population were scaled to 400 people.

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        1 year ago

        Not to mention one everyday would be 365 out of 400 every year. Clearly, ~90% of the population isn’t getting shot every year.