Remember that woman in rural LA county who was killed by a pack of dogs last week?

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222. Here is the math

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4.4%=2.2% x 2
4.4%=0.01% x 440

As you can see the pits population is 2x that of rotweilers and over 100x that of chows.

Population is important because when there are more dogs there will be more attacks by that breed. Lets say there were only 100 dogs in all the world. 80% of them pits 15% of them dobermans, 4% chows and 1% all other breeds. Now you look at a chart showing that pitbulls did 55% of the attacks. Now lets say the other 43% were chows, 1 % dobermans, and 1% other.

EDIT: BECAUSE SOMEONE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT AN EXAMPLE IS-Not directed at you Nine-THIS IS AN EXAMPLE FOR EASY MATH.

Pitbulls=55/80=0.6875
Chows=43/4=10.75
Dobermans=0.6667
Other=1/1=1

Now what is the dog most likely to attack? The chow! Its far more aggressive than the others!

Separating it by breed is important as you are artificially inflating it with other dogs. Except for pits the table is already separated by breed. Lets say that it was divide into pits vs nonpits. Then it says that 42.5% of all non-pits are dangerous. Is this fair to the German Shepard?

Also mathematically you would not need to divide the population by four. Think about it this way.1000 attacks, pits are 10% and lets say 5 breeds for easy numbers

1000attacks/(10%)=10,000
Now that for all pits. Divide by four to get the number per population and breed

10,000/4=2,500

Not hard math really. You now know the average number of attacks adjusted for breed and population. Since its multiplication division it works even if you do breed first

1000attacks/4breeds=250

250/10%=2500

Its called the associative property of multiplication

From what I can see of the NCRC they are a dog research group. However, if you can show me how their research is fraudulent ill stop using them.


Here is an older post were i did the math on the attacks section if you want the actual number (rather than easy math):

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2800966