tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post115870133223164703..comments2024-03-28T12:16:12.797-07:00Comments on Inductivist: Smart countries have less homicideRon Guhnamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421460508647618774noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-1159073692662003822006-09-23T21:54:00.000-07:002006-09-23T21:54:00.000-07:00"Black Americans might raise homicide levels more ..."Black Americans might raise homicide levels more than they lower average IQ"<BR/><BR/>You could control for this by using IQ and homicide data from states with few blacks, like Vermont.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-1158863015092464662006-09-21T11:23:00.000-07:002006-09-21T11:23:00.000-07:00I had heard that among whites the most violent are...I had heard that among whites the most violent are those who live in the southeast but NOT by the coast or flat terrain. Midwestern farmers with otherwise the same social statistics as southeastern whites are considerably less violent.<BR/><BR/>The historical Old West was apparently LESS violent than the east, and there weren't many (free) blacks or Hispanics in eastern cities at that time to try to control for. See <A HREF="http://www.mises.org/story/1449" REL="nofollow">here</A> which links to <A HREF="http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/3_1/3_1_2.pdf" REL="nofollow">The Not So Wild West</A>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-1158785932562770682006-09-20T13:58:00.000-07:002006-09-20T13:58:00.000-07:00Just from these 3 data points, I'd guess that Amer...Just from these 3 data points, I'd guess that America, Argentina, and Uruguay share a left-over frontier culture of honor. Among white Americans, murder rates are high in old cattle ranching states like Texas and Oklahoma, which topographically are pretty similar to Argentina and Uruguay. <BR/><BR/>I believe that herdsmen tend to be more casually violent than farmers, and we may be seeing this reflected here in modern urbanized cultures.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.com