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> 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 y
by 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.