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> Empirically true. Can you cite stats for that claim?

• JamisonM 12y ago
  Add up all the rare earth magnet toy sets in America. Add up all the scissors, pencils, and knives in America. Look up the injuries/fatalities to children caused by each. Viola!
  • semanticist 12y ago
    Yes, those are the stats I asked you to cite to back your claim. If you're going to claim your opinion as fact, it's just rude to be a dick when you're called on it. At least admit that it's not 'empirically true' - or, perhaps more to the point, that you don't actually know.
    • JamisonM 12y ago
      I am not being a dick. That what I said is true is so obvious I am not going to bother digging up a bunch of stats to justify it. It is a waste of time. This comment ended up doing the work for me, and demonstrates my point. But then based on the numbers somehow concludes that it demonstrates the opposite. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8138774 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8138774 How many houses in the world have pencils in them? Pretty close to every single one, how someone concludes from the injury rate cited that they are more dangerous than these magnetic toys is beyond my understanding. That comment goes so far as to note that over 40% of the incidents reported in the last 10 years occurred in 2013, how that does not make one think that maybe the recent prevalence of these powerful magnets could be related is also puzzling to me.