Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
Homicides in America by Race (scedast.com)
3 points by scedast 3566 days ago
1 comments

Cute, but absolute numbers are meaningless here. Rewrite with per capita statistics and see what happens to your conclusions.
Per capita would hide lurking variables like differences in crime rate among different communities. Comparing to overall homicides surfaces this effect more.
That's just not how you correct for confounding effects.