Posted: Mar 17, 2013 5:34 pm
Loren Michael wrote:@[color=#CC0000][b]Panderos,[/b][/color] I don't see much to suggest my contention about people at the bottom is wrong. High inequality (wealth and income) tends to be something that occurs with a society with a lot of poor people.
That's why I put that last graph in there. The correlation between wealth and equality isn't particularly good. It's there, in the direction you suggest, but it's it certainly doesn't appear strong enough to account for the relationship between inequality and crime.