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People's feelings are subjective. I have no reason to doubt that the poster would "feel" safer, which is why I trust data over feelings. Lots of people in the US "feel" unsafe, despite available data on crime rates.



They wouldn't feel safer in Somalia if they were actually in Somalia. In the US, US crime is real and Somali crime is abstract. In Somalia, though...




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