Comment by godelski

It's not silly to compare, but it is silly to draw causal relationships. Especially when cherry-picking

  - Singapore is authoritarian and has a low homicide rate
  - Venezuela is authoritarian and has a high homicide rate

Huh... maybe authoritarianism isn't sufficient to conclude the homicide rate... I mean Saint Kitts and Nevis is a constitutional monarchy and has the highest homicide rate in the world.

But let's also compare Homicide and GDP[0]. There's multiple interesting things to say from graphs like this. Though I still wouldn't conclude a causation here.

People love data when it confirms what they already believe but people don't like putting in the work needed to interpret data. Granted, the latter is not easy. But maybe if we're not math lovers we probably shouldn't claim to also be data lovers.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/homicide-rate-vs-gdp-pc?x...