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This survey is not about whether a country has or does not have safe streets, nor does it offer any kind of definition of what safety means. In New Zealand, for example, there have been decades long-running public information campaigns about dangerous driving and road deaths. Might that be what some people have in mind when they consider whether a street is safe to walk at night? It’s certainly more likely than any thoughts involving guns, which is maybe what an American might have in mind when asked about whether a street is safe.
The need to assess method of measurement and definition of terms is important when reading statistical reports. This is especially important to interpret data from Liberal politicians who often change the definition of words to dictate that all successful countries are Capitalists regardless of the policies and ideology of the successful countries. Fukuyama did mentioned that Liberals consider Nazi German to be Liberal and then later deny the Liberal affiliation.
Well, i'm not American and i wasn't thinking about gun crime. It's perfectly possible to have a country with very few guns but still have a lot of crime and unsafe streets at night.
Maybe i misunderstood the question being asked in the survey, but why would unsafe driving conditions have an impact on whether you feel safe walking?
Presumably people don't go walking out in the street where the cars are driving.
Remember, it’s not about whether there are or are not any guns around, or whether or not crossing the road is dangerous, or any actual potential chance of crime or anything else actually real. That’s not what a survey like this does. This survey is based on respondents perceptions about safety. People will be thinking of all sorts of things, much of it based on what they see in the news and on social media and so on, not on crime rates or pedestrian injury statistics or anything like that.
Here, people will swerve or drive on sidewalks to kill people. Not to mention drivers under the influence of substances, diabetics without access to insulin, heart patients without access to meds, etc. We get the best of all possible scenarios!