lunedì 17 settembre 2018

Problemi con Pinker

Le guerre con molti morti sono aumentate nel ventesimo secolo anziché diminuire.

Steven Pinker can show a decline in violence by looking at the ratio of war deaths to total population. But is the increase in the denominator, not a decrease in the numerator, that is holding down that ratio.



Measuring violence http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/measuring-violence/