One of the two terrorists involved in the Boston bombing has been killed

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Lilly is right. You have to be careful with statistical evidence, as it is often obtained using poor methods, whether the analysts know it or not. At least, it is according to Professor Ram Neta. However, it is not always anecdotal. I wouldn't have used that term. Now, that being said, population statistics are a little bit harder to fudge. Census is data really is not that bad, considering. It was a decent argument until the conclusion.

I had assumed he was pulling these numbers out of his ass (especially the 'crazy people' bit, hehe)

But where he got his data is ultimately irrelevant... 0.1% of 0.8% is a smaller number of people than 0.1% of 80%. The occurrence of that 0.1% is the same regardless of group size. Possibly he's suggesting that muslims have a higher than 0.1% chance to be crazy (50% of that 0.8% is cray cray), but that's just projecting

I would argue that he's allowing the media portrayal of muslims as a bunch of jihadist suicide bombing zealots to affect his perception of musselmen High profile terrorism is a media sensation.