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Re:How Fact-Free Parenting Policies Rob Kids' Independence by Chris2048 on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @04:55AM (#15182148)
The entire population of children do not all ride alone on a bus though. It's % of those who do that that are abducted is important.
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Re:How Fact-Free Parenting Policies Rob Kids' Independence by AstralStorm on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @05:03AM (#15182181)
Typically not possible to estimate for either murders or abductions which ate already extremely rare nowadays in general.

Are you suggesting chasing accuracy in a fraction of a fraction?

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Re:How Fact-Free Parenting Policies Rob Kids' Independence by Chris2048 on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @08:13AM (#15182982)
The post I replied to said:

> One incident in two years, out of a population of tens of millions

I'm pointing out that overall population is not relevant.

The "fraction of a fraction" is the ratio of children who ride the bus alone, and get abducted. It seems that is relevant information when trying to contextualize the danger in allowing a child to ride a bus alone.

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