Interesting stats

[Tony Raven]

Just came across the following risks from a statistics course at Brunel:

Approximate estimates of the annual death rates for a number of typical
activities

a.. Mountain Climbing, 5hrs/week 1 in 200

a.. Smoking 10 cigarettes a day 1 in 200

a.. Car Accident to young male 1 in 300

a.. All Cancers 1 in 350

a.. Illegal Drugs, participants 1 in 5000

a.. Work in Dangerous Industry, coal mining, forestry 1 in 8000

a.. Accident in the home 1 in 10 000

a.. Cancer from natural radon 1 in 20 000

a.. Death from Skin Cancer 1 in 30 000

a.. Accident at work, safe industry 1 in 40 000

a.. Deaths on Railways 1 in 200 000

a.. Meningitis 1 in 250 000

a.. Deaths related to the supply of gas 1 in 2 000 000

a.. Scheduled Air Transport 1 in 5 000 000

a.. Lightening 1 in 10 000 000

a.. Killed by Dangerous Dog 1 in 20 000 000

a.. Radiation from Nuclear Power 1 in 50 000 000

a.. Killed by a meteorite 1 in 300 000 000

 

[Simonb]

Tony Raven wrote:

> a.. Lightening 1 in 10 000 000

Wow. I knew panstick could block up pores. But I never knew it could *kill*.

 

[Jeremy Parker]

"Tony Raven" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Just came across the following risks from a statistics course at
Brunel:

Can you give a ref. please

Jeremy Parker

 

[Peter Connolly]

Simonb wrote:
> Tony Raven wrote:
>
>> a.. Lightening 1 in 10 000 000
>
> Wow. I knew panstick could block up pores. But I never knew it could
> *kill*.

Of course it can...didn't you see Goldfinger? <g>

Pete.

 

[Gawnsoft]

On Mon, 24 May 2004 17:55:30 +0100, "Simonb"
<[email protected]> wrote (more or less):

>Tony Raven wrote:
>
>> a.. Lightening 1 in 10 000 000
>
>Wow. I knew panstick could block up pores. But I never knew it could *kill*.

Or else it's finally proof that the Atkins Diet /is/ dangerous?


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[Tony Raven]

Jeremy Parker wrote:
> "Tony Raven" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Just came across the following risks from a statistics course at
> Brunel:
>
> Can you give a ref. please
>
> Jeremy Parker

http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~dtstehb/l6.htm