I don’t mean to be rude, but have you or anyone else commenting gotten mugged? I’ve walked around college campuses and some (fairly) large cities late at night because I’m an insomniac at times, and I haven’t been mugged yet.
I try to look alert and walk with a bit of a swagger if I think that it will make me look like less of an easy target, but I don’t know if these are working because I haven’t been mugged when not actively doing these things.
Basically, I’m asking if all of these amount to tiger-repellent rocks, or whether they are developed heuristics.
The whole point of the tiger/rock parable is that the testing has all been done in environments devoid of tigers.
Similarly, the mugger-avoidance strategies I could offer to User:perturbation are all 100% effective since I’ve never been mugged… but I have no idea whether the opposite strategy would have been equally effective.
I was mugged, twice, long ago. In both cases, I was in a lonely area far from foot or automobile traffic. In one case this was because it was 1 am. Earlier in the day there would have been people about. In the other case I was (apparently) followed by the muggers for some time, and then when I got to an area where I was far from anyone else, the muggers approached. Both instances of mugging involved two muggers. In one case, they both had guns. Had I avoided lonely areas, then I probably would never have been mugged. I’ve avoided lonely areas for about twenty years now, and haven’t been mugged in that time. Also, in both instances the muggers were from Oakland California, though the mugging occurred in two surrounding communities. I know because in the first case my discarded wallet was discovered by a man in Oakland, and in the second case the muggers engaged me in conversation about how they needed money to get back to Oakland.
I don’t mean to be rude, but have you or anyone else commenting gotten mugged? I’ve walked around college campuses and some (fairly) large cities late at night because I’m an insomniac at times, and I haven’t been mugged yet.
I try to look alert and walk with a bit of a swagger if I think that it will make me look like less of an easy target, but I don’t know if these are working because I haven’t been mugged when not actively doing these things.
Basically, I’m asking if all of these amount to tiger-repellent rocks, or whether they are developed heuristics.
I’ve got no idea what your tiger parable is but it doesn’t take personal experience to read a study.
Tiger parable video and transcript (ctrl+f “tiger”)
I can sell you a rock that will keep tigers away, for only $250 shipped. I’m carrying one right now, and I’ve never been attacked by a tiger.
Do you have other substantiation for its tiger repellance? In which tiger-dominated environments has it been tested?
The whole point of the tiger/rock parable is that the testing has all been done in environments devoid of tigers.
Similarly, the mugger-avoidance strategies I could offer to User:perturbation are all 100% effective since I’ve never been mugged… but I have no idea whether the opposite strategy would have been equally effective.
I was mugged, twice, long ago. In both cases, I was in a lonely area far from foot or automobile traffic. In one case this was because it was 1 am. Earlier in the day there would have been people about. In the other case I was (apparently) followed by the muggers for some time, and then when I got to an area where I was far from anyone else, the muggers approached. Both instances of mugging involved two muggers. In one case, they both had guns. Had I avoided lonely areas, then I probably would never have been mugged. I’ve avoided lonely areas for about twenty years now, and haven’t been mugged in that time. Also, in both instances the muggers were from Oakland California, though the mugging occurred in two surrounding communities. I know because in the first case my discarded wallet was discovered by a man in Oakland, and in the second case the muggers engaged me in conversation about how they needed money to get back to Oakland.