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Evidence against this as an explanation: the original studies on scope insensitivity were about birds and national parks. 20,000 birds aren't more of a threat than 200 birds, Hitchcock movies notwithstanding. Since scope insensitivity is sufficiently explained by the factors that produce it in bird and park studies, why posit extra factors to explain it on humans?
Fair point regarding scope insensitivity proper. But note that people are less willing to help a group of humans in need than an individual human in need. This comes through in the references on the Wikipedia page for the identifiable victim effect.