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> A kid chasing a ball out into a crowded street is more likely to survive in China Han the USA. That sounds nice but the fact is more people per 100,000 are k
by sumedh 8y ago
> A kid chasing a ball out into a crowded street is more likely to survive in China Han the USA.
That sounds nice but the fact is more people per 100,000 are killed in China than the US.
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoYes, there aren’t many kids chasing balls in the states anymore.
- torgian 8y agoThey’re too busy chasing Pokémon. Well, I’m Japan at least
- oceanman888 8y agoProbably more people die by playing Pokemon go, ie chasing Pokemon than balls these day.
- lhl 8y agoHow droll, but of course a completely meaningless/content free comment. A more useful one: it's very easy to get traffic accident and fatality rates statistics. [1] China has about 2X per-capita road fatalities, and almost 10X per-vehicle fatalities as the US. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoAgain, a lot of weird stuff happens on the road in China that doesn’t happen in the states. Everyone is on high alert when on the road (pedestrian and drivers) because they have to be. Someone doing X being more likely to survive in China than the USA doesn’t mean the USA will have a higher fatality rate (since people just don’t do X there).
- tptacek 8y agoThis is pretty silly. Illinois drivers ed makes a point of teaching about the "ball bounces into the street, dumb kid is sure to abruptly follow" scenario, and both of my kids ran into exactly that scenario as I taught them to drive on the streets around our house. Kids chase balls into the streets all the time. I'm curious about how you might have ever planned to back this weird argument up with evidence. Is there some secret repository of kids-playing-with-balls evidence that you were waiting to bust out? Or were you just going to try to first-principles it?
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoI’ve seen a lot of weird stuff on the road in China, very close to the proverbial kid chasing a ball into the street (though it might be some farmer chasing a goat, pig, or chicken). Anecdotally, I’ve never seen something similar happen in the states. It just doesn’t happen in the USA, people aren’t prepared for it, which is well enough since the fatality rate is still low. It will happen in China if you spend a few week there.
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