From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Dec 12 1998 - 08:05:58 MST
At 04:35 PM 12/11/98 -0500, Han Huang wrote:
>1 in 160 --
>the average US risk of being a victim of violent crime in 1997. Using
>the 1 in 160 figure, over the next 50 years, one has a 27% chance of
>being a victim of a violent crime.
Hardly (as Mike would say). Unless there's a rule in the USA that people
who've been assaulted once are left alone thereafter, your chances remain
1/160 to the end of time (all demographics being equal).
(I think - but my stats were always terrible.)
Damien Broderick
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