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February 21, 2017

Terrorist Attacks Are Not at All Like Household Accidents

No, your bathtub isn’t more dangerous than Hizballah.

Every so often, a journalist or politician proclaims that Americans are more likely to die from slipping in the bathtub (or from car accidents, or lightning strikes) than terrorist attacks—a point most recently made by Nicholas Kristof in the pages of the New York Times. Justin Fox dissects this particular bit of statistical sophistry:

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