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

  • diablexical
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    10 months ago

    Thank you, 1/5 of lifetime motorcyclists dying in wreck doesn’t add up.

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      10 months ago

      I have no idea about the statistics about motorcycle fatalities and for personal reasons I’d prefer not to get into them. I was just commenting on the way the statistics were calculated year-by-year with the assumption that the original statistics for fifty years were accurate. That being said, it’s possible that those statistics were not completely correctly calculated as well.

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        10 months ago

        The fifty year statistics were also computed wrong, for the same reason you already explained. It doesn’t make much of a difference since the probabilities are so small anyway.