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With crashes so rare, to cite one model as “safer” than another is to engage in a tedious statistical hairsplit that effectively proves nothing.
What Are the Odds You Survive an Airplane Crash? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Franck is clearly trying to weasel out of the corner he’s painted himself in by refusing to answer direct questions, but point to some comma here or footnote there and otherwise hairsplit with qualification.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More Bench Memos Boys v. Balkin: 2007
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