Smasharoo wrote:
The stats you're linking are the ones being revised.
Think it through, you'll get why they aren't valid in an hour or so.
I have thought it through Smash. The reported number of incidents is 190. However, that did not include some events after Nov 11 in 2003. So they are revising the numbers.
Approximately how many events do you think will be added Smash? Assuming a roughly equal rate yearwide, and even making that Nov 1st instead of 11th, that means that 1/6th of the events were not in the report (and I'm being *exremely* generous here).
That would bring the total up to 222ish. Again, assuming my very generous number are correct. Odds are, the final number is lower then that.
222, while up from 196 of 2002, is still a huge decrease from the 355 from 2001, and is also significantly lower then the 20 year low prior to the start of the war on terror (1998 at 274).
Here. How about you guess Smash? What do you think the final numbers will be? Just give us a guess. Unless you give us a number higher then 355, then the claim that terrorism has decreases since 2001 is still accurate. Just not as much as they stated earlier...