Comment on Is it wrong of me not giving a shit when cops get killed? They signed up for the job know what it entails. Same with Firepeople. I feel bad 4 families but no one gives a shit about Nurses or DRs?

• barkybeak@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  People’s intuition on risk is wildly off here.

  Skydiving sounds insane, but in the U.S. it’s ~9–10 deaths a year out of millions of jumps (roughly 1 in a few hundred thousand per jump).

  Driving feels normal, but it kills ~40,000+ people every single year.

  So yeah—both involve “transportation,” but the one everyone does casually every day is orders of magnitude deadlier than the one that sounds extreme.

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• otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hmm. Motorcycling might be higher or counted together with driving a car. I forget the stats.

  The others generally aren’t used as methods of transportation, but instead are generally recreational activities.

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  • shynoise@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Motorcycling is orders of magnitude more deadly on a person-mile basis. It varies a lot by motorcycle type, experience level, helmet. DUI also statistically has a heavier correlation with fatality in motorcycling (I’m not 100% but my understanding is that motorcycles are significantly harder to operate in such a way that dui effects are multiplied).

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