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For problem number 1 listed in your link, the YouTube video I posted elsewhere in this thread is a solution. Moreover, my wife, who is a nurse, has never heard
by clove 5y ago
For problem number 1 listed in your link, the YouTube video I posted elsewhere in this thread is a solution.
Moreover, my wife, who is a nurse, has never heard of "bagel injury."
- joveian 5y agoI know someone who recently got a bad cut trying to remove a pice of pre-sliced bread from a frozen loaf. So I can believe "knife vs. frozen bread" is a common cause of injury.
- shakna 5y ago> Moreover, my wife, who is a nurse, has never heard of "bagel injury." Well, if we go by the numbers in the article... > Americans ate an estimated 3 billion bagels at home in 2011, an average of about 11 per person (this doesn’t include bagels eaten at work). And in the course of slicing up all those bagels, almost 2,000 people cut their fingers so badly that they ended up in an emergency room. You have roughly (very roughly) a 0.24% chance of being one of those people injured, each day, across the entirety of the nation. I'd say the chances are low enough that some nurses will have heard of it, and some won't have, depending on distribution of bagel eaters.
- jacobolus 5y ago> 0.24% chance of being one of those people injured, each day 2,000 / 330,000,000 / 365 = 0.00000166% chance of daily bagel injury. Not sure what calculation you did, but as far as I can tell it is off by 5 orders of magnitude.
- shakna 5y ago(2000 / (300000000 / 365)) * 100 You seem to have forgotten to move the decimal place to get a percentage.
- jacobolus 5y agoOh, you have the 365 in the numerator instead of the denominator. That would do it. :-)
- chronogram 5y agoIt seems the original source for all the TIL sites is a WSJ article which wrote that in 2008 there were 1979 people who went to the ER due to bagel related injuries. So it's not 2000 per day, it's per year. Keep in mind that when a HN user writes things like "seriously", "ask any x", "it's so common". It means they probably don't know what they're talking about.
- jacobolus 5y agoThe link claims there are 2 thousand bagel injuries per year. (Out of 3 billion bagels eaten per year.) People should be careful with knives, but this is not the most serious risk modern people face. Living near cars is like 3+ orders of magnitude more dangerous.
- sandworm101 5y ago2000 that result in an ER visit. No doubt the vast majority do not require such attention. Few injuries involving cars go unreported.
- dtgriscom 5y agoThen there are the bagel injuries so serious they go straight to the morgue. The bagel and news industries conspire to hide these from public view.
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