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For his book, The Better Angels of Our Nature, the American psychologist Steven Pinker perform a survey showing that most Americans think that the world is becoming more violent. As he then demonstrates with a cartload statistics, the opposite is the case. On all fronts - murders, wars and assaults - has violence declined since the earliest state. One of the reasons for this discrepancy between facts and perception is that people leave their opinions entrepreneurship depend on where they had recently attention, as media reports.
"Robbers pick increasingly easy, unprotected targets out, such as private homes and cafes. They also have their eye on meal deliverers. The more secure banks, gas stations and grocery stores have them are left. "
It then discusses in detail the story of Anton Krop, who in his house was attacked by three masked robbers while his 12-year-old daughter had a slumber party. That is certainly a frightening event, but the figures are then quoted are not.
"Last year, 351 'private property' as homes were raided. That is exactly one times less than in 2012. The number of raids on supermarkets halved last year. In smaller shops, the decline was much less marked. Last year, only one bank robberies and four transports money, much less than in previous years.
The decrease in 'easy targets' was much less marked. For example, the number of attacks on individuals and meal deliverers barely went down. Also in hotels, garages, bakeries, video stores, and courier services, there was no improvement. "
What should instill fear is the fact that the decline in attacks on private individuals was less strong in 2013. The introduction stating that robbers choose more often unprotected targets "is entrepreneurship not incorrect, but misleading. From the perspective of the robber is true that he or she often chooses such 'easy' entrepreneurship targets, but the article is written from the perspective of Anton Krop and his family (a picture is included). And for this group, the number of robberies remained constant (or more precisely decreased by one).
Of course, personal fear stories sell better than a cool analysis of the figures. But that is no legitimacy for this product. The cumulative effect of these stories is a society that lives in fear because of a cut image of an existing avalanche of violence and crime.
It is civilization paradox: tolerance for crime is increasing faster than the crime itself which creates the perception entrepreneurship that crime is increasing. entrepreneurship The media are a type enclosures where news reinforced each other. One of the main activities of the media is to look at what other media message, and there is also about going messages. This instead of just quietly reflect on what they now find themselves important and why. Moreover, the human brain is a very big focus on avoiding risks. Very handy on the savannah between predators and starvation. We are therefore pleased to inform us about major threats, murder and manslaughter. We do this by reading stories, statistics entrepreneurship penetrate far short. As long as the human species is not smarter to keep that way. It seems that here in the free West people with high IQ propagate slower entrepreneurship than the medium-and low-intelligent people. Because intellligentie entrepreneurship largely hereditary, the average IQ will not go up. Evolutionary point of view are less intelligent entrepreneurship people more successful because they reproduce more. Intelligent people vespillen their time thinking, then in evolutionary terms.
That story more attention to danger in order to survive on the savannah sounds entrepreneurship plausible. Your theory about reproduction and IQ a lot less. The average IQ for example it increases since it is measured (google Flynn effect). So people are indeed getting smarter. If intelligence is indeed the bottleneck, then there is hope!
