RE: Alarming statistics.

["Dom de Bechi" <dddl21455@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Possibly correct. However, if you cross the railway line enough times, no
matter how many times you look both ways, you radically increase the
statistical probability of becoming an imprint on the front of a locomotive.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Pawlowski [mailto:blackeagleblackeagle@yahoo.com]
Sent: 27 June 2001 19:14
To: millenniums-end-l@firedrake.org
Subject: Re: Alarming statistics.



--- "Robert J. Hansen" <rjhansen@inav.net> wrote:
>
> Number of physicians in the United States: 700,000
> Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year:
> 120,000
> Accidental deaths per physician: 0.171
> (Source: US Department of Health and Human Services)
>
> Number of gun owners in the United States:
> 80,000,000
> Number of accidental gun deaths per year (all ages):
> 1500
> Accidental deaths per gun owner: 0.0000188
> (Source: US Federal Bureau of Investigation)
>
> ... Statistically, a doctor is nine thousand times
> more dangerous than a
> gun owner.  :)

Hmmm... If I had only not read, "How to Lie with
Numbers" I could let this one go...

Statistically, what is the average daily use of a
Doctor's skills when compared to the average daily use
of a handgun (or other "gun") are we discussing here?

Can the cause of more deaths by doctors be because
there is a higher amount of use?  Can the cause of
less deaths by guns be a factor of most guns being
unused?  Just a thought.

I carry my Glock 36 daily.  Never shot it in anger
yet.  I use my gun 0 hours of every day.


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Jeff Pawlowski
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