Map of the average homicide rate per year in 2013-2023 in Canada and the USA

Perfect example of the causation fallacy.
If one were to look at that map out of context, once could say that if the temperature is too cold or too hot, murder rates increase.
We all know of course it's a map of economic disparity, and a whole host of other societal concerns contributing. But without the context of any of those things, we're liable to think that correlation equals causation.
It's an important lesson.

Interesting how the lower-population US States have a pretty low homicide rate that tends to increase as the population itself increases but in the Canadian Provinces it's the opposite effect.
- The territories look really bad because they have less than 50,000 population each. So Yukon had about 3 total per year, NWT about 4, and Nunavut 3 as well.
  
  Ahhh that makes sense

Eh, why is D.C. that much higher than everything else, by a factor of 3-5+?
- i’m not well versed on the causes, i imagine there’s a lot of factors at play. but do i have a friend who lived in DC for a few years, and talking to him about it was whacky.
  i have a specific memory wherein he was just walking around outside while on the phone with me and there was gunfire in the background. i said something like “hey should you be outside right now?” and he, VERY CASUALLY replied “nah that’s a few blocks away, i’ll be fine.”

Okay but that 1.0 score in Quebec is fucking insane.
- Quebec proving once again they’re smarter than BC.
  
  Or they just have lots of accidents for the greater good...
- Newfoundland & Labrador also stands out as an anomaly, considering it's territory-like in a lot of ways

Dre told me Compton, California is the murder capitol of the US, but it doesn't even look like it's close to it.
- Nah that's New Orleans, and you would've known that if you studied your Lil Wayne.
- I'm surprised Wyoming is so low, true everyone is packing out here but the vast nothingness tends to screw with mind