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[Medicine Man]

Aww... No atheist terrorists! D: Atheist's need a share of the terror pie too!

[Leafsnail]

What's "anthrax" mean?  Pro-anthrax extremists?

[Medicine Man]

What's "anthrax" mean?  Pro-anthrax extremists?

I guess they just  thrash the country around a bit.

I'm guessing that they use anthrax spores to harm people.

[mainiac]

Of course, if you really want to get interesting, my opinion is that you ought to try deeper analysis than this. Another set of graphs, Method of Attacks by Motive: Bombings by Motive, Arson by motive, Shooting by motive, etc. At least that way, the issue of conflation of relatively minor seeming attacks with relatively major attacks is avoided.

I wouldn't recommend that.  The data set is just too small.  We have about 45 data points and several different sub categories.  Any real statistical analysis trying to deal with the sub categories laid out here would find it's conclusions all fail to overcome even a very moderate statistical significance threshold.

[Muz]

84 different attacks doesn't seem like a big enough group. I always thought there were more terrorist attacks.

Great job starting a war on the other side of the world to lower the number of terrorist attacks by 1-4, USA.

[Sir Pseudonymous]

84 different attacks doesn't seem like a big enough group. I always thought there were more terrorist attacks.

Great job starting a war on the other side of the world to lower the number of terrorist attacks by 1-4, USA.

The irony being that it's increased the number of islamic terrorist attacks, though it's apparently made a few other groups realize what terrible PR terrorism is.

[Leafsnail]

I'm guessing that they use anthrax spores to harm people.

Yeah, but every other group is marked with a motive, rather than a method.

[Servant Corps]

Anthrax guy was a special case since his terrorist attack was done to generate more money for his anthrax vaccation program and keep his job. I thought the anthrax scare of 2001 was very famous, so I didn't see any need to attach a 'motive'. If I was to assign a motive, I would call it "False Flag".

Of course, if you really want to get interesting, my opinion is that you ought to try deeper analysis than this. Another set of graphs, Method of Attacks by Motive: Bombings by Motive, Arson by motive, Shooting by motive, etc. At least that way, the issue of conflation of relatively minor seeming attacks with relatively major attacks is avoided.

I wouldn't recommend that.  The data set is just too small.  We have about 45 data points and several different sub categories.  Any real statistical analysis trying to deal with the sub categories laid out here would find it's conclusions all fail to overcome even a very moderate statistical significance threshold.

What if I instead look at all terrorist attacks that occured throughout the United States starting from the earliest possible date of when the Global Terrorist Database started collecting data? If I classify it on the basis of attacks based on methods and motives, we could determine if "terrorism" in the US is indeed very serious (sniper attacks), or not so much (spraypainting). In this graph, I'll also classify "buytic acid" as a terrorist attack, if only because the GTD view it as such, as well as to avoid charges of "artibariness".

The conflation between minor attacks and major attacks seem to be the biggest flaw with my study, and looking at methods would help to avoid that.

EDIT: I'll also see if I can post a new post-9/11 graph with all the pie sections labeled, like the pre-9/11 graph.

[Sir Pseudonymous]

Anthrax guy was a special case since his terrorist attack was done to generate more money for his anthrax vaccation program and keep his job. I thought the anthrax scare of 2001 was very famous, so I didn't see any need to attach a 'motive'. If I was to assign a motive, I would call it "False Flag".

I was under the impression that they never conclusively figured out who did it, something about the main suspect being exonerated, and the second one dying or killing himself or what have you .

[Leafsnail]

You could do it based on... approximate value of the damage caused, finding some way to factor deaths in too?

[Sensei]

Well that kind of separates successful ones from failed ones- not sure whether that's what you want, but since motivations were in the original graph I would imagine that it's more about terrorists than security men.

[inteuniso]

84 different attacks doesn't seem like a big enough group. I always thought there were more terrorist attacks.

Great job starting a war on the other side of the world to lower the number of terrorist attacks by 1-4, USA.

However, the graphs don't reflect the number of discovered plots. I bet that there's been a large amount of foiled plots.

[Servant Corps]

Anthrax guy was a special case since his terrorist attack was done to generate more money for his anthrax vaccation program and keep his job. I thought the anthrax scare of 2001 was very famous, so I didn't see any need to attach a 'motive'. If I was to assign a motive, I would call it "False Flag".

I was under the impression that they never conclusively figured out who did it, something about the main suspect being exonerated, and the second one dying or killing himself or what have you .

They never did conclusively figured it out, but the FBI have closed its investigation on the Anthrax attack and is sticking by its story that they found out who did it (the second suspect who killed himself).

[Servant Corps]

Will be placed in the OP too.

[Sneer]

Now that pie chart is clearly much larger.