There was an article somewhere--the New Yorker maybe?--a year or two ago on the dubiousness of dog breed profiling, pointing out that on some sort of agression scale, a pit bull or german shepherd isn't more aggressive than, say, your average dachshund.
The article was somewhat undermined by a letter to the editor afterward, which pointed out that, regardless of scores on the scale, there was quite a difference between being bitten by a dachshund and a pit bull...
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