It’s an older article, but the point stands!

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    1 year ago

    There is quite a bit wrong with your comment. The odds don’t change whether you give them in km or billion kms. However “the odds of dying on each of these” is wrong: Those are not the odds.

    As you wrote what you wrote it would mean that only 2 people in the whole US population of 300 million would die on a car.

    (annualized) death rate was 1.66 per 10,000 vehicles

    The 17times more likely is telling the truth. Of course you could do look at miles consumed per mode of transport, but the point will remain that trains are much more safer (and some people die on them rather by old age, than accidents).

    In addition the way you present the numbers with leading zeroes means you have no academic experience in the field of data presentation. Which shows.