wow, you included west virginia in a discussion of the crime rate on capitol hill? ;P
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Larry Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Here's another way to look at the data, from 2006. This is a ranking of 300 > MSA's in the US and violent crime rate per 100,000. > http://www.crimetrends.com/id4.html > > location rate per 100,000 ranking > Albuquerque, NM M.S.A. 777.8 32 > Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, 478.2 119 > DC-VA-MD-WV M.S.A > > Shall I continue? > > > > > Nope, you're wrong. The Albuquerque MSA has a higher violent crime > > rate than the Washington DC MSA according to the 2007 FBI crime > > statistics, http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2007/data/table_06.html. The DC > > rate only greater when a much wider statistical sampling region is > > included. Then the rate goes up, but the size of the region > > (population wise) becomes much, much larger, and the geographic region > > expands to include the Baltimore area. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:301462 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
