i found an op-ed it looks like it came from. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-lean-breivik-hate-groups-u.s.-20120826,0,7942204.story
not too pleased with myself after looking into who wrote it. now I want them to show their homework/data, too. sigh. On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 11:12 PM, LRS Scout <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:354178 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
