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Bill Keating: Sometimes the difficulty with prevention is you can't quantify it in statistics, because if you prevented it you may…

On the recordJune 26, 2017
Sometimes the difficulty with prevention is you can't quantify it in statistics, because if you prevented it you may never know what indeed was responsible for stopping it.
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Bill Keating
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Highlighting challenges in measuring the effectiveness of prevention against terrorism.

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