Stats Textbook:
7.4 The median - a resistant statistic
The numbers of patients recorded dying of hand-gun injuries in hospitals in various countries in a year per 5 million population are as follows:
Does anyone else find this sad? One of the biggest super-powers on this earth and such a significant number of people are so unhappy?
And to boot, these are people who die in hospitals - the statistics do not include completed suicides, gang-related deaths on the streets, accomplished homicides...
No wonder there are so many 'Self-Help' books out there- people just don't get this idea of joy.
The numbers of patients recorded dying of hand-gun injuries in hospitals in various countries in a year per 5 million population are as follows:
- Switzerland - 24
- Japan - 2
- UK - 1
- Sweden - 12
- Canada - 8
- Germany - 3
- USA - 190
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Does anyone else find this sad? One of the biggest super-powers on this earth and such a significant number of people are so unhappy?
And to boot, these are people who die in hospitals - the statistics do not include completed suicides, gang-related deaths on the streets, accomplished homicides...
No wonder there are so many 'Self-Help' books out there- people just don't get this idea of joy.
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