02-01-2017, 05:56 PM
Quote:Was it? Do you have evidence of this? The average number of deadly sociopolitical events over 1964-84 was 7 and the average death tolll was 32. The average number of such events over 1908-1928 was 15 and the average death toll was 78. The average number of events for the prior 2T (1886-1908) was 11 events and 44 deaths. In other words the last 2T was violent, the previous 2T was more so, and the 3T was worse than both .
Ah, so you are restricting measures of violence to "sociopolitical events"? Do you have a definition for that?
Quote:Now you are adding another analytical category without comparing it to the rise murder rates in the previous period. Are these also dwarfed by what happened then? I think you will find they are.
That's what I was referring to above, the overall rise in murder rates. What is the point, in your analysis here and now, in comparing the magnitude of violence now to then?