12.30.2009

Doing the math

...the odds of being on given [airline] departure which is the subject of a terrorist incident have been 1 in 10,408,947 over the past decade. By contrast, the odds of being struck by lightning in a given year are about 1 in 500,000.

link: FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: The Odds of Airborne Terror

-Noted by our Midwest Bureau


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