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Reply to: #921423 by Kasimir
Mar 4, 2016 1:06pm
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Reply to: #921423 by Kasimir
Mar 4, 2016 1:21pm
This spawned a question for me, what are the gun death rates by police? This is difficult to determine because it is difficult to determine how many police there are in the United States. So, let's use Wikipedia numbers since I didn't find any better numbers in my few minutes of searching. Even these numbers are admitted in the article to not be accurate, but they are the best I have found.
120,000 federal (2008) + 17,985 (2012) = 137,985
288 (2010) killings by police officers
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Category | Number | Population | #/Pop |
Accidental deaths per physician | 120,000 | 700,000 | 0.171 |
Deaths per police | 288 | 137,985 | 0.002087183 |
All injury deaths (US) 2013 | 192,945 | 316.5 M | 0.000609621 |
----- Poisoning | 48,545 | 0.000153381 | |
----- Motor vehicle traffic | 33,804 | 0.000106806 | |
----- Firearms | 33,636 | 0.000106275 | |
Firearm deaths per person (US) 2013 (CDC) | 33,636 | 316.5 M | 0.000106275 |
----- Suicide | 21,175 | 0.000066904 | |
----- Homicide | 11,208 | 0.000035412 | |
----- Unintentional discharges | 505 | 0.000001596 | |
----- Legal intervention/war | 467 | 0.000001476 | |
----- Undetermined | 281 | 0.000000888 | |
Accidental deaths per gun owner | 1,500 | 80 M | 0.0000188 |
Fatal unintentional drowning (US) | 3,533 | 301.15 M (2005 - 2009 average) | 0.000011732 |
Once I started this research, I decided to follow it to it's end, no matter how it came out. An interesting thing that came out is that the death rate per person is higher for the unintentional use of water than the unintentional use (discharge) of guns.
And to answer the question that I had too: What is a fatal intentional drowning? I'm assuming that it is a homicide.
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Reply to: #921431 by Oberon_Kenobi
Mar 4, 2016 1:32pm
I thought that I could keep editing (because of a recent update), but the edit button is gone.
I use statistics from different years in my previous post because that is what is available in the CDC and other statistics that I found.
And this thread has moved from the "Funny Pages". It should probably be in "Off Topic Wildly".
I use statistics from different years in my previous post because that is what is available in the CDC and other statistics that I found.
And this thread has moved from the "Funny Pages". It should probably be in "Off Topic Wildly".
Re: Beware!
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Reply to: #921412 by Grrly Girl
Mar 4, 2016 6:39pm
"Sixty percent of all statistics are wrong."
~Albert Einstein
~Albert Einstein
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Reply to: #921427 by Kelsung
Mar 6, 2016 10:27am
I once told a plant manager that was trying to reprimanded me based on some figures he had that you can make the numbers mean anything you want them to mean.
Case in point......
Everyone who has ever taken a drink of water has died so water must be poison.
Shiloh
Case in point......
Everyone who has ever taken a drink of water has died so water must be poison.
Shiloh
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Reply to: #921549 by shiloh
Mar 6, 2016 11:59am
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Reply to: #921552 by Oberon_Kenobi
Mar 6, 2016 2:14pm
Funny you mention that.
In grad school, we labeled certain solvent bottles as Dihydrogen Monoxide around lab for a joke. It seems that some safety officers don't know much about chemistry and don't quite understand the joke. On an annual inspection, we were cited for keeping "highly reactive" monoxide compounds out on the lab bench and not properly labeling our acids and bases.
Though to be fair -- how does one properly label Dihydrogen Monoxide -- acid? base? bacid? acidase?
Needless to say, our boss wasn't thrilled about the citations and had several heated discussions with the safety officers about the bogus charges.
In grad school, we labeled certain solvent bottles as Dihydrogen Monoxide around lab for a joke. It seems that some safety officers don't know much about chemistry and don't quite understand the joke. On an annual inspection, we were cited for keeping "highly reactive" monoxide compounds out on the lab bench and not properly labeling our acids and bases.
Though to be fair -- how does one properly label Dihydrogen Monoxide -- acid? base? bacid? acidase?
Needless to say, our boss wasn't thrilled about the citations and had several heated discussions with the safety officers about the bogus charges.
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Reply to: #921412 by Grrly Girl
Mar 7, 2016 10:00am
I thought these numbers looked way high. Then I too looked on line and concluded that they actually could be low! At the very least, they are in the ballpark.
I also notice that when letterboxes are presented with a truly scary statistic, they mark it funny.
Old Blue
denial apparently is a river in Africa