{"id":986,"date":"2004-10-23T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-23T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=986"},"modified":"2004-10-23T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-23T19:18:00","slug":"heres-a-little-hint-for-you-re-terrorist-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=986","title":{"rendered":"Here’s a little hint for you, re: terrorist attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unneccessary proof that the vast majority of people are freaking out without thinking or analyzing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Google search string<\/td>\nHit count<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
“terrorist attacks on the united states”\n<\/td>\nabout 52,800\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
“terrorist attacks” “united states”\n<\/td>\nabout 1,080,000\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
“incidence of terrorist attacks”\n<\/td>\nabout 177\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
“history of terrorist attacks”\n<\/td>\nabout 420\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
context “terrorist attacks” “united states”\n<\/td>\nabout 179,000\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

All of this because I was trying to find something which spelled out how many terrorist attacks we’ve suffered in our history, or how many people were lost to terrorist attacks in our history. So much for that thought. <\/p>\n

(it’s for a paper for class. We’re trying to argue that a national id system would have a ridiculous false positive rate. It’d be nice to know what a reasonable positive rate to expect would be.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unneccessary proof that the vast majority of people are freaking out without thinking or analyzing. Google search string Hit count “terrorist attacks on the united states” about 52,800 “terrorist attacks” “united states” about 1,080,000 “incidence of terrorist attacks” about 177 “history of terrorist attacks” about 420 context “terrorist attacks” “united states” about 179,000 All of … Continue reading “Here’s a little hint for you, re: terrorist attacks”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}