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Re:You’re Eight Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police O... by kvb on Monday January 20, 2014 @09:30PM (#7093045)
It's not just that. What's the probability that 100K people are killed by terrorists vs. police next year? With fat tails, the number of people killed in the recent past isn't an accurate summary of the true statistics.
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Re:You’re Eight Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police O... by jeremysmyth on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @04:28AM (#7094246)
Vanishingly small. That's entirely the point.
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