A few things to know before stealing my 914

Re:A few things to know before stealing my 914 by graton on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @03:15AM (#36768948)

Probably most people have about a 1 in 80 chance of dying each year on average over the course of their life.

The US death rate is 1.04% per year. So in that sporting event example, statistically 313 of them will die within a year's time.

Also if the sporting event was today then only around 2.5 people would die in a car accident "this year" as currently we are already in July ;)

Anyway that is my bunch of nonsense statistics :)

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Re:A few things to know before stealing my 914 by RC_ITR on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @12:28PM (#36775135)

>The US death rate is 1.04% per year. So in that sporting event example, statistically 313 of them will die within a year's time.

Yeah but only some of those deaths are randomly distributed across the population and not correlated with age. Car accidents being a major example of that (unless there's a bunch of 70+ year olds at Yankees games that I'm not seeing).

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Re:A few things to know before stealing my 914 by graton on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @05:48PM (#36779546)

Could also say the same thing about car accidents. The death rates for car accidents is different based on gender. What is the gender ratio at those Yankees games? :)

I'm willing to hand-wave over a lot of this stuff as otherwise it gets way too overcome with pedantry which likely doesn't matter...

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