Comment 104182

By RobF (registered) | Posted August 27, 2014 at 14:40:52 in reply to Comment 104180

This is one difficulty with data-driven social policy ... you don't get nice tidy answers.

Your question is better posed by thinking in terms of whether rates of homicide differ based on income level or a composite measure of socioeconomic status and whether these differences differ significantly between social groups (aboriginal/non-aboriginal, visible minorities/non-visible minorities, youths/non-youths, men/women, and so forth).

The danger, of course, is that rather than trying to better understand a complex problem seeking to drill-deeper into data can lead to policy inaction, or in some cases is a tactic used for stalling and obfuscation.

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