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Re:Striped Shark Mitigation Suit to Help Prevent Shark Attacks by Retric on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @07:26AM (#9850915)
This is a somewhat misleading statistic as people on average don't spend much time swimming near shark in the ocean. There are probably people who are ~10,000-100,000 times more likely to be killed by sharks than average. due to spending ~100-1,000 times as much time in the ocean and swimming in 10-100x higher risk areas.

PS: On average world wide my guess is the average person spends <1 hour per year in the water as large numbers of people never swim in the ocean and those that do are mostly limited to a few hours a year.

Edit:https://xkcd.com/795/

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Re:Striped Shark Mitigation Suit to Help Prevent Shark Attacks by ainiriand on Monday July 13, 2015 @04:09AM (#9876929)
You are right. The numbers are a bit misleading for some specific people. It is a bit like the risk of death from a fall in a cliff, climbers have an increased chance but the average person wont experience any significant risk in their normal activities. My intention was to reduce the fear of shark attacks, a problem that is slowly taking hold in the population. Thank you for your insightful comment.
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