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Re: [privacy] Which do you fear more: Terrorism or Hernias?
From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:36:18 -0400
On 9/11/06, Dave Dittrich <dittrich () u washington edu> wrote:
I assume that is over the last five years.
"With that in mind, here's a handy ranking of the various dangers confronting America, based on the number of mortalities in each category throughout the 11-year period spanning 1995 through 2005 (extrapolated from best available data)."
A notable missing item is deaths due to smoking, which is about twice that of the driving figure (440,000 deaths between 1995 and 1999 per http://www.cdc.gov/MMWR/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5114a2.htm)
Dude VanWinkle wrote:Here is a list of how you could die, and the probability of each: from: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71743-0.html?tw=rss.index S E V E R E Driving off the road: 254,419 Falling: 146,542 Accidental poisoning: 140,327 H I G H Dying from work: 59,730 Walking down the street: 52,000. Accidentally drowning: 38,302 E L E V A T E D Killed by the flu: 19,415 Dying from a hernia: 16,742 G U A R D E D Accidental firing of a gun: 8,536 Electrocution: 5,171 L O W Being shot by law enforcement: 3,949 Terrorism: 3147 Carbon monoxide in products: 1,554-- Dave Dittrich Information Assurance Researcher, dittrich () u washington edu The iSchool http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich University of Washington PGP key http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/pgpkey.txt Fingerprint FE97 0C57 0843 F3EB 49A1 0CD0 8E0C D0BE C838 CCB5
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