Source: California Department of Justice | https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/data (Homicide Actuals)

Tools Used: Excel, Datawrapper

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I'll bite, what happened in 1994

Ahh. So hide it under Christmas, thanks!

Epstein was in LA having a party with his friends.

The ‘80s and early ‘90s loved murdering.

Damn, murderers sure are getting lazy these days. Damn millennials and zoomers are killing the murder industry. What happened to traditions?

Why is it going up and down?

The bite of 1994

I’m pretty sure murder was in for all of the 90’s. Some die hard murder fans lingered up to the current era of cell phones making murder way more solvable/provable by law enforcement

See what happens when you bring family together? Murder

It was all John McClane

Because there's always a random component to any single piece of data. That random component gets smoothed out when you take averages.

Im talking about the red one

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Looks like Christmas is just another day when it comes to murdering

A generation of men with undiagnosed PTSD and drug induced mental illness from the 60s and 70s working its way through the system is my guess.

Randomness and disparate sample sizes/an ugly line graph

The argument from the freakonomics guy is that in around 96 the generation who were born once abortion was legalised started to become adults. At that time you had a huge reduction in the number of kids being born into situations where they were unwanted/ couldn’t be cared for/ or there were drugs etc involved. With that reduction came a matching reduction in the number of people growing up to be disfunctiknal adults.

Or something like that.

Rudolph the sawn-off shotgun

Had a very shiny nose

He took out all the family

They used to be so very close

That’s the actual count on Christmas Day, year by year. It’s a different number each year.

Then one foggy Christmas Eve

Santa came to slay

Rudolph, with a knife so bright

Silent, to n’er cause a fright

Santa never even saw him

Never had a chance, you see

Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight

He won’t even count to three!

People don't realize how important kids are to our survival and mental well being. They can also drive you crazy of course but the joy they bring outweighs the annoyance.

Between any given day, the amount of murders that happen is going to fluctuate a lot due to the relative rarity of murders. If you average lots of these days, or 365 of them in the case of a year, it converges toward an average.

You can think of each day as a "sample". Lots of days is a larger sample. This convergence is explained by the central limit theorem.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem

This says absolutely nothing other than the central limit theorem exists. Christmas is not seemingly any more or less deadly than average.

The freakonomics book is BS and not filled with much or any factual evidence. Check out the podcast "If books could kill" where they do a deep drive episode on it debunking the claims.

Sometimes. You should hang out with some kids with FASD or serious development disorders.

*Most of the time. You're taking something that's uncommon and highlighting it as if it was common.

You took something that’s uncommon and completely disregarded it.

I thought I was cynical but you're quite the one as well.

It’s been a shitty day to end a shitty year. Sorry about the snarkiness. Merry Christmas.

Bro Christmas homicide also happen in July ?

>It’s been a shitty day to end a shitty year.

Its been a shitty year. Period. All days included. Maybe I'm being slightly ungrateful but anyways Happy Holidays to you too. Stay safe.

Isn't this the number of homicides reported in California on Christmas Day? How is this an issue with sample size?

It's still insane, don't these murderers have better things to do?