Top: map of where people don’t live
Bottom: map of where people live
Getting shot by a redneck or getting probed by Elvis, take your pick.
I bet that second map would look dramatically different if it was sightings per capita.
The top is the percentage of people while the bottom is the total incidence. This is an apples and oranges comparison. In this case the bottom map is functionally a population map as others have pointed out. Most stats are best in “#/thousand people” or equivalent, but should always in the same unit if compared.
Where is this top map from? I can’t say for the rest of the states, but oregon and Washington are way off. WA has 34% gun ownership and OR has 44%
Source: https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/gun-ownership.html
It might be per household vs. people with a firearm registered to them personally? (Note i have no idea how firearm registration works in thr US but it’s the first explanation that comes to mind since your source is specifically “adults living in a household with at least one firearm”)
Where is the correlation? South Carolina? Some in Arizona? Is the point that there’s more UFO sightings in places with low gun ownership? Please explain.
Yeah, the joke is that aliens might be scared of the gun places.
(Reality is just that the % is higher in rural areas, and more people = more sightings)
