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Terrorism: We Wildly Overestimate the Risk of Being a Victim
'On the subject of terrorism, Gardner cites a U.S. study that compared travel and fatality patterns for the five years before the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington to those between 2001-02. It found that 1,595 road deaths were attributable to people shifting to travelling by car because of fear of flying in that immediate post-9/11 period -- six times the number aboard the three doomed airplanes and a little more than half of the total 9/11 death toll.?
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