text: God Plays Dice: Logarithmic jihadism
  Logarithmic jihadism
  U.S. counterterrorism officials have been on guard for homegrown recruitment by radical groups. Intelligence analysts from the New York Police Department, in a study of radicalization in Western Muslim communities, warned that "jihadist ideology" is "proliferating in Western democracies at a logarithmic rate."
  Maybe it's just me, but logarithmic proliferation doesn't seem all that scary.
  Posted by Michael Lugo at 7:45 AM
  Labels: mathification
  Well, logarithmic growth has a very steep initial climb...
  Well, logarithmic growth does diverge to infinity...
  I always hate it when people misuse exponential. "Sir, you mean quadratic!" But this cracked me up.
  Is 'police intelligence' the new oxymoron, replacing 'military intelligence'? I hope not, given the scale of the al-gebraic threat.
  One way to make sense out the "logarithmic growth" comment is to imagine straight-line growth on (semi)logarithmic paper. That would amount to exponential growth.