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[–]ClassroomPast6178 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Can’t you get weirdly skewed graphs like that if you have a very small sample size and the sampled people are utter cunts?

There might just be 250 Sudanese in Victoria and 25 of them were involved in violent crime.

[–]TurkishCoffee 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You can. The rate shown would be more meaningful if the other tab of raw numbers was shown. The fact kenya and somalia show up in rates, but not unique offenders seems to lend towards small numbers of people possibly. (ie easy for a couple people to commit a handful of crimes each and skew the rates interestingly