Saturday 2 January 2016

Quibans 4 - Gun deaths

This graph comes from a BBC article about gun deaths in the USA:


What questions can we ask?  Here are some ideas:

  • Does everyone understand the graph?  For example, at a cursory (and wrong) glance it might appear as if there were 5 times as many deaths in the USA as there are in the UK, which is reasonable because the population of the US about 5 times that of the UK.
  • How many homicides were there in the UK in 2012?  [Need to know that the population of the UK is about 60 million.]
  • Estimate how many people were killed by guns in the UK in 2012.
  • How many people were killed by guns in the USA in 2012?  [The population of the USA is about 5 times that of the UK.]


Link to the article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35211294

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