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what the article fails to do is make clear that its actually about peoples misapprehension of risk
that more people die whilst cycling than as a result of terrorist action is clearly true
however more of the public will be concerned about themselves being killed in an act of terrorism than in a cycling accident
to compare these simplistic numbers is an oversight as they do not actually convey any sense of the relative risk - however there is no method to actually quantify the risk
the paper pertaining to relative risk has then been used as the basis for a lazy article stating that bicycles are more dangerous than terrorism
clearly there is an error here in the simplistic comparison, bicycles are an object, terrorism is a social movement
if you compared the numbers of people killed per bike and then the numbers of people killed per terrorist activity you would have a very different headline!