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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
Category: japan
Tim Starr writes: Japan classifies cases of husbands murdering their wives & kids then killing themselves as all suicides, no homicides, thus skewing their statistics in favor of suicides & against homicides. This claim is easily seen to be false:...
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Category: japan
Cristina Yu wrote: You didn't mention Japan. Japan's such a safe place that they're murder rate is almost as low as the murder rate for Americans of Japanese descent. Almost, but not quite. Wrong. Kleck says this on page 189...
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Category: japan
In "Point Blank" Gary Kleck writes: ``One way one might crudely and partially control for United States-Japan cultural differences is to compare homicide rates among Japanese-Americans, who live where guns are plentiful, with the homicide rates of their presumably culturally...
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