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WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 9 months agofucking hell mate, do you think selection bias is a fictional concept inapplicable to your calculations or are you going to continue to pretend that taking an entire countries population and comparing it to any sliver of the country 1:1 doesn’t fail basic representativeness analysis?
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Do you think not all kinds of people go to Disney? Why do you think I gave the numbers for people under 44 except to eliminate most people who die from diseases?
WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
If I add in the 85+ to the disney calculations it only makes your case worse (drives the # higher). I left it out to be nice.
Would you seriously take your family to disney as long as less than 10 people a day died there? Like get your head out of the #s for a second think with your common sense.
Lets do another really simple one. Imagine a playground near you serving kids 5-14. Are you taking your kids as long as less than 13 kids died there last year? Or are you maybe thinking its unsafe after 1 or 2 deaths? WHY?
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
You’re the only one talking about if I would go or not, what I’m talking about since the beginning is that considering the number of people present and publically available stats, it’s clear that there’s nothing unusual about deaths happening during these events and OP calling it a tragedy is exaggerated. I’m sure they didn’t even know that deaths happen most years at Burning Man and they only realised it happened this year because attention was brought to the event because of the weather. Same for Disney, same for any place where there’s thousands of people coming and going every day.
Shit happens, there’s statistically less shit happening there than elsewhere, get over it.
cubedsteaks@lemmy.today 9 months ago
so you don’t think its a tragedy when someone dies?