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> That's 11 injuries and 0.3 deaths per year. Bathtubs claim about 80 fatal and 100 non-fatal drownings per year. I'm not a stats guy, but it seems like this c
by goblin89 12y ago
> That's 11 injuries and 0.3 deaths per year. Bathtubs claim about 80 fatal and 100 non-fatal drownings per year.
I'm not a stats guy, but it seems like this comparison would be more useful if we somehow account for the difference between the number of bathtubs installed and the number of neodymium magnet toys purchased among the population.
- smsm42 12y agoYou can go both ways on this. If something were purchased by almost nobody, why ban it? OTOH, if something is purchased by almost everybody, and hurts hundreds of people just in the US every year, shouldn't something be done? If you talk about risk to the average person, it all sums up.