{"id":22943,"date":"2011-04-13T11:40:07","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T15:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22943"},"modified":"2011-04-13T11:40:07","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T15:40:07","slug":"stupid-hippie-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22943","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Hippie Index"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TSO sent me this link, and I really don’t know what to make of it. It’s from a survey conducted by the Institute for Economics and Peace<\/a> and it ranks the most “peaceful” States. Some how, the peace index has something to do with the correlation of the number of police officers and the increase of crime in the States;<\/p>\n

New York experienced the most significant increase in peace as a result of decreases in violent crime and the homicide rate.<\/p>\n

Conversely, South Dakota saw the largest decline due to a steady rise in incarcerations and the number of police without a fall in the incidence of homicide or violent crime.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But, South Dakota is #14, so things can’t be too bad there. New York is #29. Funny how the highest ranking States are generally liberal Northeast States.<\/p>\n

The USPI also finds that a state\u2019s ranking is strongly correlated with various socio-economic factors including the high school graduation rate, access to health insurance and the rate of infant mortality. Significant economic correlants included the degree of income inequality and the rate of participation in the labor force. Meanwhile, factors such as median income and a state\u2019s political affiliation had no discernable [sic] impact on a state\u2019s level of peace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll bet if they included abortions in the infant mortality factor, it’d change the outcome significantly.<\/p>\n

Generally, the South seems to fare worse in the index. In other words, states which have intrusive governments seem to have more “Peace” and States which generally leave their residents alone have less “Peace”. That couldn’t have something to do with the indicators the Economic and Peace Institute used could it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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