Study of pet dogs shows breed does not predict behaviour

Re:Study of pet dogs shows breed does not predict behaviour by pupppet on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @01:45PM (#31251192)

Stats that reveal breeds like pitbulls causing the majority of attacks seem to contradict this, no?

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Re:Study of pet dogs shows breed does not predict behaviour by lin83 on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @01:57PM (#31251339)

There's a subreddit that campaigns on the issue. The research page has a link to lots of studies, most from respectable publications, which are really damning: https://old.reddit.com/r/BanPitBulls/wiki/research

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Re:Study of pet dogs shows breed does not predict behaviour by rcpt on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @01:49PM (#31251239)

It does. Once your pitbull mauls the neighbor kids you're not going to send it's DNA into their website. There's a huge sampling problem here.

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Re:Study of pet dogs shows breed does not predict behaviour by mindcrime on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @01:48PM (#31251229)

It would contradict the headline as written, but headline is not actually an accurate statement of the article itself.

This headline, to a superficial reading, says "breed has NO predictive power with regards to behavior". What the study found was that breed is a weak predictor of behavior, not that it has no impact at all.

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Re:Study of pet dogs shows breed does not predict behaviour by rozap on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @02:10PM (#31251496)

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Health/DOHMH-Dog-Bite-Data/rsg...

Followed (not too closely) by Shih Tzu and Chihuahua which are...a little less life threatening. This is just raw data and obviously not controlling for population.

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Re:Study of pet dogs shows breed does not predict behaviour by TameAntelope on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @02:09PM (#31251484)

No? It just means people teach pitbulls to attack other people.

Ban pitbulls and those people will teach some other breed to attack.

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Re:Study of pet dogs shows breed does not predict behaviour by caterpi11ar on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @02:24PM (#31251670)

Pitbulls have been banned in various places. Any data to suggest this phenomenon has happened anywhere that pitbulls are banned?

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Re:Study of pet dogs shows breed does not predict behaviour by TameAntelope on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @03:26PM (#31252414)

Pitbulls are not banned in areas where pitbulls are a problem, so no.

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Re:Study of pet dogs shows breed does not predict behaviour by squidbeak on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @04:46PM (#31253357)

Pitbulls were banned in the UK in 1991. We still have fatalities from pitbull attacks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_dog_attacks_in_t...

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Re:Study of pet dogs shows breed does not predict behaviour by TameAntelope on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @05:47PM (#31254036)

I hope you see how that further demonstrates my point; the death volume would have remained at this value (approximately) regardless of the breed ban in the UK.

Bad owners are the problem, not bad dogs.

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Re:Study of pet dogs shows breed does not predict behaviour by dymk on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @06:07PM (#31254235)

No, it just means the breed ban isn't being enforced.

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Re:Study of pet dogs shows breed does not predict behaviour by TameAntelope on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @06:20PM (#31254343)

How does a dog that isn't a banned breed killing someone mean a breed ban isn't getting enforced?

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Re:Study of pet dogs shows breed does not predict behaviour by robonerd on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @07:36PM (#31254999)

The dogs are banned but the bans are flagrantly flaunted and because of that, the dogs are still killing people.

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Re:Study of pet dogs shows breed does not predict behaviour by rajin444 on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @01:51PM (#31251259)

not finding something is a lot different than finding something

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