Statistical survey research isn't the only kind of social research, and it isn't the only way to make generalizable claims.
At 02:16 PM 12/17/2012, Jordan Hayes wrote:
>shag writes:
>
>>Psychopaths engage in this sort of behavior - love loud,
>>crazy, pulsating things like bombs, explosives, shoot em ups
>>-- because it's a way to feel something, even if only temporarily.
>
>And yet they most often live their lives never once killing more than one
>person (themselves). I think more than half of what we call "school
>shootings" involve only two bodies: the target of the shooter's lifelong
>anger, and the shooter shortly after. A few of the instances involve
>"bystanders" ... but the kind of thing that happened last week, and in
>Columbine, is practically a unicorn: everyone writes books about them, but
>statistically they don't exist.
>
># "Unicorns: extinct ... or endangered?"
>
>/jordan
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