Re: Man arrested over quad bike death

"Steve Firth" <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote in message 
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> Clive George <clive@xxxx-x.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> "Steve Firth" <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:1iaolnk.wcvdn7f46lv3N%%steve%@malloc.co.uk...
>> > Adrian <toomany2cvs@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Steve Firth (%steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth)) gurgled happily,
>> >> sounding
>> >> much like they were saying:
>> >>
>> >> > So how does Vermont measure up to the UK? They have the same murder
>> >> > rate
>> >> > as the UK, but 1/10th the violent crime rate and 25% fewer incidents 
>> >> > of
>> >> > rape. Burglary in Vermont is one quarter the rate of that in the UK.
>> >>
>> >> Hmmm. I'm not entirely sure that Vermont is analogous to the whole of 
>> >> the
>> >> UK.
>> >>
>> >> To Gloucestershire, perhaps.
>> >
>> > In what way does the population of a state matter to the crime rate?
>> >
>> > Note that's rate (per 100,000 population) not absolute numbers.
>>
>> In what way does the population distribution and density of a
>> state/county/country matter to the crime rate?
>
> IN this case it's rather up to you to prove an effect rather than to
> hint at one.

At least my question was pertinent...