Statistically, We're Irrational
27 October 2002
Coverage of the murders in Washington D.C. ignored many essential facts. One of those is the fact that far more people were dying from other ’unnatural causes’ during that killing spree. Susanna Cornett and Rachel Lucas provide some perspective on how irrational it was for us to become engrossed with those murders. The facts found in the statistics point us in some different directions if our genuine concern is for those who die from ’unnatural causes.’
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