Erik Engheim
1 min readJul 8, 2020

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About the Norwegian statistics. Yes the one I showed was number of perpetrators. In the 3rd column they are adjusted for age and gender, since younger men do more crime and say older people and women, and demoraphics of each population group differs. This is btw an adjustment I seldom if ever see done in Anglo-Saxon statistics.

There are various other graphs. But they did not have the breakdown I thought was interesting for this topic. It lacked the detail of nationality. The groups where much larger.

E.g. there was statistics on violence but European and Africans would be put into larger groups. Then you cannot e.g. see important details such as Russians or Kosovars being overrepresented on crime, because they would get averaged out by a lot of Europeans groups with very low crime rate.

Likewise the fact that crime for different African groups varies will be lost because Somalis in all statistics I have seen in other countries as well do quite badly. Because they are a very large group in Norway, their numbers would dwarf the contribution of other smaller groups.

E.g. it is hard to have a sense of Africa if you only test and sample the people from the most war torn and messed up part of it. Because Norway primarily takes in refugees among visible minorities, they are not representative of people living under the best conditions, or average conditions.

They are representative of the worst. People who come from the most dysfunctional socieites and who have gone through the most hardship.

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Erik Engheim
Erik Engheim

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Geek dad, living in Oslo, Norway with passion for UX, Julia programming, science, teaching, reading and writing.

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