When looking at homicide rates it’s worth remembering that a good healthcare system reduces the rates as it’s able to help people who get shoot survive that would die if the healthcare system isn’t as good.
Initially I thought this wouldn’t have much of an effect. However a brief check suggests that only ~1/3 of gunshot victims actually die in the US (study) so there’s plenty of scope for healthcare to be making a significant difference.
That makes sense. So I guess a correction where we assumed all countries had US-level healthcare would scoot the poorer countries to the left in the scatter plot...I think this could dampen trendline but would still leave the US looking pretty weird.
When looking at homicide rates it’s worth remembering that a good healthcare system reduces the rates as it’s able to help people who get shoot survive that would die if the healthcare system isn’t as good.
Initially I thought this wouldn’t have much of an effect. However a brief check suggests that only ~1/3 of gunshot victims actually die in the US (study) so there’s plenty of scope for healthcare to be making a significant difference.
That makes sense. So I guess a correction where we assumed all countries had US-level healthcare would scoot the poorer countries to the left in the scatter plot...I think this could dampen trendline but would still leave the US looking pretty weird.
I also think it would still leave the US as an outlier but not as extreme as the plot currently suggests.