Tag: violence

04 Dec 2007

Another Edition of “Look at the Data”: Modeling Terrorism

I’ve had the opportunity to do some original research on terrorism and intra-national civil violence and its ‘root causes.’ While I was digging through newspapers, entering data into a spreadsheets, and reviewing the author’s chapters, I learned quite a bit. Namely, most of the common beliefs about terrorists are utterly unsubstantiated in any dataset you [...]