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Dispelling the myth of "The Wild West"

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3fgburner

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I frequently use this. A coworker saw a perforated target in my office, and mentioned the Wild West thing. I pointed out that the homicide rate in Dodge City or Tombstone added up to a bad week in DC. She said she found it "disturbing" that I could quote a statistic like that off the top of my head...
 
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3fgburner wrote:
...She said she found it "disturbing" that I could quote a statistic like that off the top of my head...
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You should have told her that you found it disturbing that she uncritically repeated information that has been repeatedly disproved.
 
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