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World Incarceration Rates If Every U.S. State Were A Country (No other country even makes the first page) (lemmy.ml)
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From here: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/2021.html

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[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

I don’t get this graph. So all of US has a smaller incarceration rate than just Louisiana? What?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago

Yes, look up what per capita means.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

i have 4 boxes labeled A to D, and 10 rocks.

i put 1 rock in A, 2 in B, 3 in C and 4 in D.

A[⚪] B[⚪⚪] C[⚪⚪⚪] D[⚪⚪⚪⚪]

i then paint 1 rock in B, 2 rocks in C and 1 rock in D.

A[⚪] B[⚪🔴] C[⚪🔴🔴] D[⚪⚪⚪🔴]

then i put the boxes in a bigger box called the united boxes.

here's the rate of painted rocks:

  1. C 66% (2/3)
  2. B 50% (1/2)
  3. United boxes 40% (4/10)
  4. D 25% (1/4)
  5. A 0% (0/1)
[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

Thats how averages work, unlike eg maximums.

But Im sure reversing that chart would correlate with math test scores.

[–] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The US average falls in the middle of the list of states, yes. This is a chart of per capita rates.

[–] tonyn@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

The entire US would have the average of all the states' incarceration rates.