Capitol rioter breaks down crying in court -- gets hit with 68-month prison sentence

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87. My assumption is a theory, not an argument

Something I learned years ago when I was in grad school, studying psychology and statistics. I leaned a theory that extreme deviant behavior, as compared to the norm, will generally manifest in approximately 10% of any given population; so one can estimate in any population that 10% will deviate from the norm to the extreme.

Think of a normal curve, most fall within the large hump, but we get the top 5% and bottom 5% who land at the extreme ends. That's 10%. It's not an absolute, and curves can be skewed or bimodal. But even in those cases, there are those that fall outside of the norms.

Even if it's 5% of 1.8 million active duty, that's still hundreds of thousands who have the potential to do a lot of harm, even if they're being watched. I didn't look up numbers on former military, but I'm sure they are a large group too. I agree that the majority of active (and former) military will protect and defend. It's the bottom 5%, the dregs, the proud and oath breaker boy types that I'm referring to.

I was only trying to point out that while it's a small percentage it's not a small number. As I write this it occurs to me it's kind of like covid numbers; only a small percentage died or got long covid, but it still represents a large number of people and something we can't ignore.