Wednesday, February 1, 2017

The psychology of why 94 deaths from terrorism are scarier than 301,797 deaths from guns

The statistics are clear, yet low-information voters are scared of the wrong things:

https://qz.com/898207/the-psychology-of-why-americans-are-more-scared-of-terrorism-than-guns-though-guns-are-3210-times-likelier-to-kill-them/

The odds:

"One in 6 million: Risk of dying in a plane hijacking, assuming you fly four times a month and hijackers destroy one plane every year. (Just to be clear, since 9/11, hijackers have not destroyed any flights in the US.)
One in 7,000: the risk of dying in a car accident in any given year
One in 600: the risk of dying from cancer in any given year"

And don't forget the 1 in 3.6 BILLION of being killed in a terrorist attack by a refugee.

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