Rate and per capita are neither needless metrics nor semantics.
You can claim ignorance on the part of the author, but there are no numbers that contradict her findings. If there were by now you would have found them, as easily as I found what I posted. There were numerous choices stating the same thing.
You have made up your mind that something is so, and no amount of hard data can dissuade you.
The former is an agenda, the latter is the math of the matter.
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