Well, since Microsoft has been removing itself from the market and introduced edge in place of explorer, as well as Safari, Firefox, Chrome, and a couple others picked up the rest there is no direct relationship to murder rates in any way. Just a pure coincidence that there appears to be a 1:1 correlation.
Anyway, what's obviously happening is that murderers only go after people who use IE. Since they've successfully killed off most users, they don't need to kill so many people any more.
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ReplyDeleteIE makes you want to go postal...
ReplyDeleteLOL, nice correlation!
ReplyDeleteThe fun thing is it's not clear which is the independent variable. IE may drive people to murder, yes, but try interpreting it the other way around...
ReplyDeleteLikely both are correlated to reductions in lead.
ReplyDeleteActually, the lead-crime hypothesis might tie in well to the one about smacking bans...
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Well, since Microsoft has been removing itself from the market and introduced edge in place of explorer, as well as Safari, Firefox, Chrome, and a couple others picked up the rest there is no direct relationship to murder rates in any way. Just a pure coincidence that there appears to be a 1:1 correlation.
ReplyDelete... at this stage, I'm taking it for granted that no-one actually thinks there's a meaningful association because there's a correlation. Everyone's seen this, right ?
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Anyway, what's obviously happening is that murderers only go after people who use IE. Since they've successfully killed off most users, they don't need to kill so many people any more.