"Per Capita"
(with apologies to Dr. Seuss)
There once were two towns on a plain
One called Bigville, one called Small Lane.
Bigville had people by thousands and more
With crowds in the streets and lines at the store.
Small Lane was tiny, with just a few folk
A diner, a church, and a man with a goat.
One day they compared how much pie they had baked.
"Ten thousand pies!" Bigville cried.
"Only one hundred!" Small Lane replied.
"Clearly we're better!" said Bigville with pride.
"We've got more pie than you have inside!"
But an owl in a hat said, "Wait just a bit.
Before you start bragging, let's look into it."
He counted the people. He counted the pies.
Then he looked at both mayors right in their eyes.
"You can't just compare the big number you see.
You must ask how much there is per capita, you see."
"Per capita" means, in a simple old way:
"For each person."
Not for the town.
Not for the king.
Not for the crowd.
Not the whole thing.
If ten thousand pies feed ten thousand folk,
That's one pie each. That isn't a joke.
Now, if one hundred pies feed fifty folk there
That's two pies each. They have more to spare!
Bigville looked puzzled. Small Lane looked smug.
The owl said, "No fighting! No need to tug!
When raw populations are different in size
The bare numbers can fool even very smart eyes."
A city with crime may have thousands each year
While a village has twenty, and everyone cheers.
But if the big city has millions of souls
And the village has hundreds, the picture may roll
The other direction when measured just right
By crime per person instead of by sight.
The same thing is true for money and wealth
For doctors and schools, and even for health.
Whenever one group is much larger than another
Per capita helps you compare one to the other.
So remember this lesson when numbers get grand:
Don't just count the pies all across this great land.
Ask how much each person gets in the game.
Because when populations aren't quite the same?
The biggest number is often the trap
And per capita helps you read the full map.
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