[Stealth Hunter]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Hmmm I just looked up the (High School) graduation rates of Denmark and the US.

Denmark: 47.3 in 2007
United States: 36.5 in 2007

But I guess its easier to graduate from a Danish school since they only do 9 years while we have to do 12. So either we have fewer people with only 9 years of schooling since 12 is mandatory or so few of our students reach 9 years...

Looking through other statistics they've provided, it appears this is not the only thing they've not gotten correct:

But from 1960 until today, the number of crime reports has increased by 500 percent, to more than 500,000 per year. And if we look at violent crime, the picture is even grimmer. The number of violent crimes in 1960 was approximately 2,000; it is approximately 15,000 today. This is an increase of more than 700 percent, and it is still rising steeply.

Actually the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute notes that Denmark has 491,000 crime reports on average per year, not "over 500,000". Furthermore, their violent crime rate is not anywhere near the one this mises.org article claims. On average each year, there are 56 murders, 16 kidnappings, 500 rapes, and 3,238 robberies. And as far as prisoner numbers go, they have only 3,435 prisoners currently- ranked 107th in the world.


http://www.nationmaster.com/country/...mark/cri-crime


Now as far as what the Danish Statistical Yearbook from 2002 says (this is the source the author of this "case study" cited for these particular statistics), I'd like to see a copy. Something is very wrong with their numbers, if this is what they really claim.

And, for the record, Denmark is not a Social Democracy- nor has it ever been one. It's a Constitutional Monarchy.