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Absolutely False.
Are you balancing for
population size? If something is only 1 in a million occurrence, having a population of 300 million like the US makes it more likely just because the population sample size is much larger than say lower population countries like Germany, France, Denmark, or the UK.
You'll also notice that while Mexico has a intentional homicide rate of 18 per 100,000 while the US has a intentional homicide rate of 4.6 per 100,000, the US border states adjoining Mexico have much higher intentional homicide rates than the rest of the nation. Some people accuse Mexico of importing their much higher violence rate into the US.
The intentional homicide numbers are also highly biased because they omit government violence against its own populace. For instance, Saddam Hussein's using chemical weapons against the Kurds, murdering thousands, isn't counted in Iraq's intentional homicide rate statistic. Nor when his sons went out murdering anyone that got in their way ever counted. Secret police carting people off in the middle of the night in Russia or Iran to murder them aren't counted. It's a debate I'm not going to engage in here on a PUA site, I'm just saying be aware of the bias in the intentional homicide numbers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cou...icide_rate
Comparing how many serial killers each country has is probably not a good standard, because we can only count
discovered serial killers. Maybe Denmark has the most serial killers in the world, but because of jante law they all live on merrily doing their murderous deeds safe from the police, die quietly of old age, and are never discovered at all. So they never get counted in the serial killer stats correctly. It's something we can't know.
It's also not plausible to compare one serial killer to another as the same --if one woman poisons to death a victim each week, but another only one every ten years, they're both counted the same in wikipedia's list. Shouldn't they be weighted by total murders committed? And again, we can only count the
discovered bodies, furthering biasing the sample set.
And I'm not sure what makes some murderers "serial killers" and others not. Al Capone shot down people in broad daylight with a machine gun multiple times. Why isn't he a serial killer? What about gang members doing drive by shootings, murdering random people just for kicks? How is repeatedly shooting up a neighborhood and murdering random people not "serial killing"? Yet even the Beltway Sniper douchebag didn't make wikipedia's list of serial killers. Very strange.