//Thread on #Loneactor #terrorism #research // Over the past couple of months, my colleagues in the #EU @Prime_FP7 project (incl. @noemie_bouhana @paulgill_ucl @LasseLindekilde @MonageaFrancis) and I published a series of articles on lone actor terrorism.
No need to be rude. My point is that while the study is useful, it is limited to those networks that are known. As you know, the true extent of networks are rarely found, and many attacks go unsolved. A list of those in Turkey alone can be found here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221246952_Prediction_of_past_unsolved_terrorist_attacks …
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You didn't say it was useful initially though, you criticised years of work without reading or engaging with it which, in my opinion, is rude. The study you cite is of terrorist groups not lone actors and turkey was outside of our geographical inclusion criteria.
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My point wasn't intended as criticism of your paper specifically, but of selection bias in terror research generally. Statistical modelling of terror attacks will always suffer from the fact that the amount of detail available is proportional to the incompetence of the attacker.
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