[randomblast]

Did you read the paper?

They derived 8 behavioural factors from the survey questions, and there are a few which are very relevant to dog-human aggression.

#1: Human sociability #2: Arousal level #4: Biddability #5: Agonistic threshold (agonistic is the behavioural term encompassing aggression)

Those are probably the most relevant. There is an important consideration which does seem to be missing from the study, but only reinforces its conclusion:

Most, if not all of these factors can be altered with behaviour modification (training).

You can raise a dogs agonistic threshold with classical conditioning. You can increase its biddability with operant conditioning. You can lower its arousal level with both.

Does training rewrite DNA? Obviously not.

[defen]

I did; do you understand why I am saying "DOG leaves food or objects alone when told to do so" or "DOG is quick to sneak out through open doors, gates" or "DOG is slow to respond to corrections" (among many other questions) are utterly irrelevant when people consider why certain types of dogs are dangerous?

> Most, if not all of these factors can be altered with behaviour modification (training).

What percentage of dog owners know how to train a dog properly, or hire someone who can? It just seems like you're not thinking about how dogs exist in the real world.