Yeah, you wanted to do a real comparison you'd have to go back to what the
70's?

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> I'd question the statistics, first off. What defines each of those
> categories and what constitutes, more specifically, an attack?
>
> I also note that they chose 1995 as the start date, thus including the
> Oklahoma City bombing but excluding the first bombing of the World
> Trade Center. There is no natural choice of 95 as an even numerical
> target, like "the last 20 years", so you have to presume they chose
> that year for that precise reason.
>
> Overall, both numbers are going to be small, so excluding one or two
> incidents for some arbitrary reason is going to significantly skew the
> results when expressed as a percentage.
>
> I'd tend to agree that we have more to worry about from violent
> domestic political groups than we do foreign, but those numbers sound
> suspect to bogus to me.
>
> Cheers,
> Judah
>
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > this went by on twitter today. thought it was interesting.
> >
> >
> > The QI Elves ‏@qikipedia
> > In the US since 1995, far-right extremists have carried out 56% of
> > domestic terrorist attacks; radical Muslims 12%.
> >
> >
>
> 

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