Although my house is still wrapped from the inside with cellophane and duct tape, I have begun to venture outside on occasion.
Various death odds here in the US:
Terrorist attack
1 in 90,000
Terrorist shopping mall attack
1 in 1.5 million
Terrorist airplane attack
1 in 55 million
Lightning
1 in 56,000
Bathtub
1 in 10,000
Drowning
1 in 8,000
Homicide
1 in 200
Cancer
1 in 50
Tobacco
1 in 5
2 comments:
Americans have no sense of odds. What else explains playing the lottery?
The chance of winning the jackpot on a typical state lottery - 6 numbers out of 49 - is 1 in 14,000,000. In other words, you could expect to win the jackpot once if you played every week for 269,000 years.
by the way, that fucking fearmongering by, Ridge, if I remember correctly, should be a criminal offense.
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