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Stefan
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Boat Safety - and thread arguments
In article ,
says...
"Stefan" wrote in message
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In article ,
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For
instance, mortality rates of bowling are significantly higher than
scuba.
Evidence? I seriously doubt that is actually the case.
The statement also assumes causality. 'Mortality rates OF bowling' is not
the same thing as 'mortality rates WHILST bowling'.
Yes but I doubt the statement is true even regardless of causality.
Some of these nonsense statistics are remarkably persistent. A common
one heard in the climbing community is "There is a 1% chance you will be
killed by climbing in your first year." If you climb, you hear this one
from people all the time. It can be traced to a UK government report
from the 1950s and was clearly wrong even then. Given the way climbing
protection equipment has improved in the meantime, it is wildly
inaccurate today. Nevertheless, people read or hear it, assume it's true
and go on repeating it.
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