[programmernews3]

I notice a correlation between the cities studied and race. I am surprised that this obvious variable was not taken into account.

[mikeash]

What correlation, exactly? Picking a few cities from the list and comparing racial demographics and the relative shooting/murder rates, I didn't see much connection.

[programmernews3]

www.washingtonpost.com/sf/feature/wp/2013/03/22/gun-deaths-shaped-by-race-in-america/

Non-Hispanic blacks (2.8 per 1,000) and Hispanics (2.2 per 1,000) had higher rates of nonfatal firearm violence than non-Hispanic whites (1.4 per 1,000) https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/press/fv9311pr.cfm

http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/firearms-death-rate-by-...

[mikeash]

The topic here is not overall gun violence, but specifically the percentage of shootings that result in death, and the fact that this percentage is extremely different in different cities.

[grardb]

This ^

Quick examples: Minneapolis, Boston, Nashville, and Cincinnati all have much higher percentages of non-Hispanic whites than Los Angeles and New York.

Even if we look at black or Hispanic/Latino percentages:

* Minneapolis: 18.6% black, 10.5% Hispanic/Latino

* New York: 25.1% black, 27.5% Hispanic/Latino

* Los Angeles: 9.6% black, 48.5% Hispanic/Latino

I wouldn't go so far as to say that the data is "all over the place," but I would definitely not say there's a correlation with race.

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https://imgur.com/a/Imo9Y

[mikeash]

For anyone following this thread but not the other one, my reply, wherein I continue not to see much correlation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13716999