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I'm not sure how to interpret this chart: For an average annual hours of 2000, how can we know if that person works 40 hours a week during 50 weeks or 66 hours

by vmarsy 13y ago

I'm not sure how to interpret this chart: For an average annual hours of 2000, how can we know if that person works 40 hours a week during 50 weeks or 66 hours during 30 weeks ? Also what jobs are represented here ? For instance for firemen or soliders it seems logic that statistically the more hours you work the more premature mortality will happen.

twistedpair 13y ago
> it seems logic that statistically the more hours you work the more premature mortality will happen But many of the most dangerous jobs, say fighter pilot and Alaskan crab fisherman, are actually very short bursts of intense work. The pilot might log several hundred hours in a good year and the fisherman works in seasons that are only several weeks long. Trouble here is the mononumerosis, aka the need to boil a whole range of values down into a single number.