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 â@qikipedia > > In the US since 1995, far-right extremists have carried out 56% of > > domestic terrorist attacks; radical Muslims 12%. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:354177 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
