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> In general, India has a very high drowning fatality rate. > Each year, 86,000 people drown in the country, roughly 20% > of all drowning deaths worldwide.
by Jedd 11y ago
> In general, India has a very high drowning fatality rate.
> Each year, 86,000 people drown in the country, roughly 20%
> of all drowning deaths worldwide.
Isn't India roughly 20% of world population anyway, making this number entirely consistent & unremarkable?
- krick 11y agoExactly. And all the article itself is example of marvelous statistics: it's not really useful to know how many people died while taking a selfie or how many selfie-deaths were caused by running in front of a train. Implication is that it's about "selfie-taking trend is dangerous", but it's not. Much more interesting would be to compare how many death, caused by extremal activities were accompanied by taking a selfie — it's quite possible, that people die of running in front of a train as much as they did before, they just take selfies while doing it now.
- anuragbiyani 11y agohttps://xkcd.com/1138/ https://xkcd.com/1138/