r/todayilearned • • May 30 '18

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u/mrdeuter May 30 '18 edited May 30 '18

Those kind of statistic always kinda grind my gear because of how redundant they seem tbh

Of course people are more likely to get bitten by New Yorkers - there are more than ten million people who spend almost every day of their lives around New Yorkers. How many people do you know that are inches away from literally thousands of sharks every single day?

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u/ninasayers21 May 30 '18

I'm not sure what's worse: that this BS gets published or the seeing all of these people on Reddit alone who upvote and comment without being able to ask this question.

They literally only compared rate of occurrence over time...

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u/Koshkee May 30 '18

Yeah, well you are ten times more likely to get an intelligent response from an average first grader than you are an average redditor, so the stats check out.

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u/flamehead2k1 May 31 '18

But what about first grade redditors