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Re: just the facts

Posted by cody dooderson on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/just-the-facts-tp7582525p7582530.html

That looked cool. I was particularily interested in what they said about gun control( http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp ). I went to the source of their information and it was totally different from what they reported.

They attribute the data to the source 
[120] Dataset: "20 Leading Causes of Unintentional Injury Deaths, United States, 2007." U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Accessed September 1, 2010 athttp://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/leadcaus10.html

And here is their graph. Notice that firearm deaths is 16th.




Here is the exact data i got from from http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/leadcaus10.html for  2007
Notice than firearm deaths are ranked both 4th and 5th. What is going on here? Is this a Fox news source. Also, why did they just choose 2007? The data goes back to 1999

10 Leading Causes of Injury Deaths, United States
2007, All Races, Both Sexes

 

Age Groups

Rank
<1
1-85
 
 1 
Unintentional
Suffocation 
959
Unintentional
MV Traffic 
41,900
 
 2 
Homicide
Unspecified 
174
Unintentional
Poisoning 
29,824
 
 3 
Unintentional
MV Traffic 
122
Unintentional
Fall 
22,605
 
 4 
Homicide
Other Spec.,
classifiable 
86
Suicide
Firearm 
17,350
 
 5 
Unintentional
Drowning 
57
Homicide
Firearm 
12,608
 
 6 
Unintentional
Fire/burn 
39
Suicide
Suffocation 
8,161
 
 7 
Undetermined
Suffocation 
34
Suicide
Poisoning 
6,356
 
 8 
Homicide
Suffocation 
30
Unintentional
Unspecified 
6,005
 
 9 
Undetermined
Unspecified 
28
Unintentional
Suffocation 
5,038
 
 10 
Unintentional
Fall 
24
Undetermined
Poisoning 
3,759
WISQARSTM Produced By: Office of Statistics and Programming, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Data Source: National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), National Vital Statistics System


On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Robert J. Cordingley <[hidden email]> wrote:
From Abortion, Climate Change, Gun Control to Social Security and Taxes, the http://www.justfacts.com/ offers just the [distilled] facts on about 14 major topics.  I thought this site with its emphasis on objectivity might perhaps be useful to the group.  The sister (brother|sibling) site http://www.justfactsdaily.com/ may be more politically motivated and picking and choosing what to discuss.

Thanks
Robert C



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