So you know this NYT op-ed? Everyone's talking about it. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/opinion/the-other-terror-threat.html … 1/n
God damn it, disregard. I was reading 254 as per year, not total. Never mind, my point does not stand. 5/5
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@St_Rev Wait a moment -did they start counting *after* 9/11? The distribution's dominated by a single outlier, and they decide to ignore it? -
@A_P_Mason I THOUGHT that was the problem! But I was assuming a claim of 254 fatalities per year, not total. -
@A_P_Mason 254/3370 = 0.075, which is close to the fatality rate for the 'unaffiliated' category in the table, which is ~80% of the total. -
@A_P_Mason But that's the 'random nut' category. "in most cases...spontaneous beatings of minorities or vandalism of facilities." -
@A_P_Mason So the takeaway is you get 254 deaths if you count every freak who shoots someone and carves a swastika into their forehead? -
@A_P_Mason Actually it's totally unclear where 254 is coming from. '254' only appears in the report as a footnote tag. -
@A_P_Mason 3354 unaffiliated x 0.08 = 268 fatalities! None of this makes any sense. -
@St_Rev That table seems to be including the 1990s? So maybe 254 is the post-2001 portion of that. - 3 more replies
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