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It's hardly a reason to leave home, but it's definitely a reason to, for example, not go skydiving. You obviously can't remove all risk, but you sure can reduc

• zrobotics 8y ago
  That might not be the best example, though. You are more likely to die driving to the airport than you are to die while skydiving. That is an activity which is similar to riding a roller coaster: it seems much more dangerous than it actually is.
  • daveFNbuck 8y ago
    > You are more likely to die driving to the airport than you are to die while skydiving. Can you back that up? I thought this was true too but did a quick check anyway and I found skydiving death rates are 8 in a million but driving death rates are 7.1 per billion kilometers. Driving to the airport is probably more dangerous than your average drive, but it still looks like the car trip is less likely to kill you.