(May 6, 2012 at 10:47 am)Abishalom Wrote:(May 6, 2012 at 10:39 am)Paul the Human Wrote: The term is "Per Capita". Do more atheists per capita commit crimes than believers? - is the question.See you're doing too. Our friend Tempus used that argument to belittle Christian charitable works. Christians represent a larger % of the population in correlation to atheist therefore they should have more charitable works. Why doesn't this apply to your "per capita" argument about crimes. Atheists represent a smaller % of the population in correlation to Christians therefore they should commit less crimes. It goes both ways.
I'm not defending anything, nor putting forth an argument. I'm informing you that the term both of you were looking for was "per capita". You both kept describing it, so I told you what to call it. And it is an incredibly important thing to consider if you want to compare two segments of the population in any significant way.