{"id":1333,"date":"2013-03-19T16:20:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T21:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2013-04-27T18:06:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T23:06:15","slug":"graph-of-the-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2013\/03\/19\/graph-of-the-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Graph of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I didn&#8217;t get in too much hot water for <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2013\/03\/12\/graph-of-the-week\/\">last week&#8217;s graph<\/a>, I may as well take the trouble to point out that those four California cities are actually part of a much wider national trend against violence and victimization in general, which was graphically illustrated by Steven Pinker in <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=J7ATQb6LZX0C\">The Better Angels of Our Nature<\/a>, in chapter 7:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1334\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1334\" style=\"width: 873px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/03\/photo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1334\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/03\/photo1.png\" width=\"873\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/03\/photo1.png 873w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/03\/photo1-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 873px) 100vw, 873px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 7-10. Rape and homicide rates in the United States, 1973-2008<br \/>Source: Uniform Crime Reports and National Crime Victimization Survey; Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2009.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Incidentally, I like how he based-lined both data sets at 100% in 1973, which makes it easier to see whether the rates are correlated. After the graph, Pinker notes that while theories abound as to the decline of violence in general, &#8220;criminologists have not jumped into the breach&#8221; in an attempt to give an explanation for the decline in rape in particular, &#8220;There is no Broken Windows theory, no Freakonomics theory, that has tried to explain the three-decade plunge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Your thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I didn&#8217;t get in too much hot water for last week&#8217;s graph, I may as well take the trouble&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-damned-lies-and-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}