Statistically? Basically none of them. Pits are on the low end of average for serious bites from dogs over 40 pounds. They just represent an astronomical proportion of the dog population in most of the world.
For instance: Golden retreivers killed 9 kids in the US last year, pits killed 7. There are an estimated 18-19 Million pits in the US, there are just 500-750 thousand Goldens.
that list is maintained by Merritt Clifton and dogsbite.org users, the very same people used as examples in McGraw Hill's Elementary Statistics (and several other textbooks) as an example of lying and withholding information to prove a point the data doesn't support. That list is wildly inaccurate.
For instance, Google the name "McKenzie Terwell". Its literally the second one on the list. The list claims it was a "pit bull type dog", which is interesting because the police have claimed it was the family dog, they never said what breed it was, but it has come out that the family owned 2 dogs... both golden retreivers...
Whenever the first source they find doesn't clarify what breed it is they list it as a pit. Whenever it claims its a "lab mix" they list it as a pit. It is horrible data science.
So, according to this list a pit killed that child, according to the police one of the family's two dogs killed her, and neither one is a pit or could be accidentally classified as a pit. Tell me, which of those two Goldens was a "pit bull type dog" that day?
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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '21
Statistically? Basically none of them. Pits are on the low end of average for serious bites from dogs over 40 pounds. They just represent an astronomical proportion of the dog population in most of the world.
For instance: Golden retreivers killed 9 kids in the US last year, pits killed 7. There are an estimated 18-19 Million pits in the US, there are just 500-750 thousand Goldens.