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Old 01-20-2008, 04:58 AM   #24 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by gamercube View Post
If you really want a comparison, compare it with the murder rate of doctors, engineers, the police (outside of their line of work) or other professionals, not with criminals.
If we did that, then the result will be skewed as well.

By definition, if we don't include criminals in our population, any population, the result of crime rate is ZERO.

General population includes criminals. So does the military. Lets compare the crime rate of law abiding veterans to that of law abiding doctors. The result is the same. ZERO.
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