Comments on: Odds of Dying in a Terrorist Attack

By: paisley

paisley — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:45:27 +0000

Never seen those stats before but here in Africa we love, enjoy and appreciate life fully because anything could happen at any time. Wonder why?

By: Goodbye freedom | Evolving Thoughts

Goodbye freedom | Evolving Thoughts — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 06:06:28 +0000

[...] affect less than 1/100,000 every year, less than those who die from infectious diarrhoea in the US. Here are some things that are more likely to kill you than a terrorist attack. Death by cop is eight times more likely [...]

By: john baker

john baker — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:15:24 +0000

You’re gonna have to think again about your position, Ellen. I’m afraid you’re talking racism here, and it doesn’t take a lot of nouse to understand why.

By: 3d tv

3d tv — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 05:52:18 +0000

White people generally don’t make a fuss about being called pathetic things such as ‘Bird ****’ ‘Milk Bottle’ or even more ‘White’. In contrast even calling a Black person Black or a Asian person Asian seems to hit some sort of neuron in there brain that makes them think its refered to in a racially degrading way when they are really descriptive words informing the truth, if they upset you then the real racist is themselves for thinking their skin colour makes a difference. Everyone can say something that could be misconstruded as racist. All races must realise in future that humanity is also a race and get over skin tone otherwise everyone will continue to argue over ‘who is racist’ instead of moving on. This makes sense to me, even if its poorly explained.

By: Peutch

Peutch — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:01:42 +0000

Problem is, you have to be careful how you calculate probabilities. These are unconditional probabilities, not taking anything else into account.

On the other hand, if you start taking into account the fact that, say, you live in NY, I’m pretty sure the odds are changed.
Or if you live in Baghdad, I’d be surprised if the odds of drowning were higher than the odds of dying in a terrorist attack.

E.g. if you are White, you are probably less likely to be shot dead by a police-man (no offense), but as likely as a Black person to die in an airplane hijacking. So this would bring the odds closer.

By: Bob Hudson

Bob Hudson — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:58:29 +0000

Huddled in the dark, waiting to die
Huddled in the dark, waiting to die
We’re huddled in the dark just waiting to die.
He don’t see you when you’re sleeping!
He don’t see you when you’re awake!
He don’t know if you’ve been bad or good,
so be good for GOODNESS SAKE.

Oh, we’re huddled in the dark,
Huddled in the dark
Huddled in the dark
Just huddled in the dark
Huddled in the dark, just waiting to die.
(More or less sung to Santa is Coming to Town)
(Sorry for the lousy timing)

By: Ron Robbins

Ron Robbins — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:31:32 +0000

Oh hell yah. JB brother you got it going on! And the rest of you , keep using that grey matter. The irony of my chances of being killed by the cops is eight times greater than from a terorist attack. Wow, when are we going to declair war on the police?

By: john

john — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:08:06 +0000

This war on terror is a waste of money and of peoples lives. Instead of investing millions of dollars in this so called war they could invest that money into research to prevent diseases which kill thousands of peoples instead.