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To: fanfan
absolutely useless stats.

people see a percent sign and get all wobbly.

you have to look at more than numbers. i have no experience with the subject matter, but off hand i'd say one reason your numbers show the trend of mothers being more dangerous than men is because mothers have much more interactions with kids than father do.

think about it. if you have a single mother, the biological dad might spend zero time with the kid while the mother spends almost all the time with the kid. so of course mothers are more likely to kill, as a whole.

but my guess is that if you were able to breakdown the numbers as who kills more as a percentage of the total amount of time spent with kids, males would be MUCH MUCH higher than females proportionally.

see tagline.

91 posted on 02/07/2008 2:45:27 PM PST by thefactor (there are lies, damn lies, and statistics.)
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To: thefactor
i have no experience with the subject matter,

I can tell.

92 posted on 02/07/2008 4:40:47 PM PST by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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