Why are Oilers fans so murderous? [Note: liberal arts degrees --> higher murder rate]

[Asher]

Murder rate per 100,000 people in 2004:

Calgary 1.91
Edmonton 3.39

The only reasonable explanation is Calgary's degrees are mostly science/engineering and Edmonton's are mostly artsy.

[KrazyHorse]

[KrazyHorse]

I can't find a list of homicide rates by university-educated people broken down by course of study.

[BeBMan]

[Asher]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
I can't find a list of homicide rates by university-educated people broken down by course of study.

First rule of statistics: correlation = causation

Edmonton is mostly liberal arts.

[KrazyHorse]

U of A has a decent physics program

[KrazyHorse]

better than U of C's...

[Elok]

Where are these places? Canada? Canadians aren't people. Your statistics are inherently flawed.

[Asher]

All of the graduates move south though.

FWIW, the guy who lost $5B is a UofA physics grad who then moved to Calgary to lose all of that money.

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by Asher

First rule of statistics: correlation = causation

Edmonton is mostly liberal arts.

Do you also have that popular saying which goes like "don't thrust any statistics you didn't manipulate yourself?"

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Asher

First rule of statistics: correlation = causation

Edmonton is mostly liberal arts.

Well, if we want to follow tracers, then:

Liberal Arts = lower median salary = higher homicide rate
Sciences = higher median salary = lower homicide rate

[Asher]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


Well, if we want to follow tracers, then:

Liberal Arts = lower median salary = higher homicide rate
Sciences = higher median salary = lower homicide rate

Another excellent connection made.

Perhaps we should preemptively imprison liberal arts grads, before they don't make any money and thus kill people.

[Ninot]

What's the source?

[Asher]

stats canada

[Ninot]

Montreal: 1.73


We aren't the murderous hell hole Calgary is