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| Zebidee:
Lol Do the cute little pictograms actually mean anything, or are they just for decoration? The graph has two obvious axes (age, death probability), so is there a third dataset? I guess not, no attribution either. I'm being too fussy. Must be just for fun as I see two cyclists in very different spots (and both seem to be wearing helmets too)! Looking at it in a different way, seems to suggest that people over 100 must like skydiving a lot :o :-X How is the plane coming along? |
| danny_galaga:
Yeah, unfortunately it's part of a bigger 'picture", the age context doesn't make much sense there does it 😄 Basically, it was showing your chances of dying in the next 1000 hours of continuing with a particular activity. Baseline is commercial jet airline travel, 0.01%. driving a car is four times more deadly at 0.04% but clearly still pretty safe . I think motorcycling was something like 0.6%, which is over a magnitude higher than cars. Flying light aircraft gets you into the 'climby' part of the graph at something like 1.6%. looks a small number, but 160 times more dangerous than airline travel! The top dude is climbing Mt Everest! The two bikes are regular cycling and downhill mountain biking. Way off the charts is basejumping and F1 racing. I think base jumping had you at 94% change of dying in the next 1000 hours of activity which made it 9400 times as dangerous as airline travel 😄. F1 racing was only about half as dangerous as base jumping! |
| Zebidee:
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on July 13, 2024, 04:34:03 am ---The top dude is climbing Mt Everest! The two bikes are regular cycling and downhill mountain biking. --- End quote --- Oh, that makes sense! You can see the difference between the bikes if you look closely (road bike vs offroad). |
| PL1:
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on July 13, 2024, 04:34:03 am ---Way off the charts is basejumping and F1 racing. I think base jumping had you at 94% change of dying in the next 1000 hours of activity which made it 9400 times as dangerous as airline travel 😄. F1 racing was only about half as dangerous as base jumping! --- End quote --- The important context here is "the next 1000 hours of activity". Pretty sure there are many F1 drivers who have racked up over 1000 hours of racing time. Assuming that the average BASE jump lasts less than one minute from jump to touchdown, it would take over 60,000 jumps to rack up 1000 hours of actual jump time. AFAIK the record number of BASE jumps is 4008 by Miles Daisher. (ref) Even if the chart makers assumed an average jump took 15 minutes to pack the chute, 4 minutes to gear up, 10 minutes to climb/move into position, and 1 minute of jump time, it would take 2000 jumps to rack up 1000 hours of activity. Short duration + severe consequences for mistakes is what makes the numerical rating for BASE jumping so insanely high on this chart. Two parting thoughts: Scott |
| danny_galaga:
I think this might go a long way to explaining why base jumpers have a shorter life expectancy (clue, the term is 'self entitlement' 😄 ) Language warning https://youtu.be/TLsf7PjW11A?si=i4TJeUF8NuTETahw |
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