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prior probability 
That’s quite a title. It drew me in. Of course, they didn’t make adjustments for populations, did they?
No, the map is too crude in that regard, but it’s a start!
Because that is where the money is? (Sutton’s Law) No, it doesn’t seem to fit. One might think bank robberies = function (hometown (insecure) banks, income disparity, poor opportunity, prevalence of guns) but how does that explain SD vs NE, for example, or NY = MS? Makes me think that the map might be divided too finely and what it is showing is different levels of noise, but I don’t have the data.
Great points. I’m planning on digging up the underlying data for a future post (e.g. absolute numbers of reported bank robberies and number of banks per State).