Re:Cory Doctorow: Our dangerous statistical ignorance
by breck on Wednesday May 21, 2008 @02:32PM
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"But the fact is that attacks by strangers are so rare as to be practically nonexistent. If your child is assaulted, the perpetrator is almost certainly a relative."
Maybe that statement is true in today's world. But for tens of thousands of years, while our brains evolved, I would guess attacks from strangers were a lot more common.
Re:Cory Doctorow: Our dangerous statistical ignorance
by tel on Wednesday May 21, 2008 @03:20PM
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The causation implied here is unlikely at best. More likely might be that until the last century no one had to deal with numbers large enough to need these kinds of statistics.
Maybe that statement is true in today's world. But for tens of thousands of years, while our brains evolved, I would guess attacks from strangers were a lot more common.