Tuesday, May 22, 2007

The abuse of statistics

I noticed this little piece that paints doctors as being dangerous because they are 'more lethal' than gun owners. This is argued because in Sweden one is 7500 times more likely to be killed by a doctor than by a gun owner. What marvellous logic.It is also true statistically that one is more likely to be killed by a family member than by a serial killer. By the same logic this would mean that

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