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The percentage of people in those jobs who die is small. In fact, there are quite a few deadlier jobs out there. (I want to guess that they're mostly related to resource extraction)
Do you also not give a shit when a driver dies because we know that driving is the deadliest method of transportation per kilometre?
Surely motorcycling, free climbing, BASE jumping, hang gliding, and skiing are deadlier?
People’s intuition on risk is wildly off here.
Skydiving sounds insane, but in the U.S. it’s ~9–10 deaths a year out of millions of jumps (roughly 1 in a few hundred thousand per jump).
Driving feels normal, but it kills ~40,000+ people every single year.
So yeah—both involve “transportation,” but the one everyone does casually every day is orders of magnitude deadlier than the one that sounds extreme.
Driving is not the deadliest method of transportation per kilometre which it seems you missed.
Motorcycling is deadlier, horse riding is even worse and jet skis are the worst that I’m aware of.
Base jumping would probably be the deadliest but I’m not familiar with the statistics on it.
Hmm. Motorcycling might be higher or counted together with driving a car. I forget the stats.
The others generally aren't used as methods of transportation, but instead are generally recreational activities.
Motorcycling is orders of magnitude more deadly on a person-mile basis. It varies a lot by motorcycle type, experience level, helmet. DUI also statistically has a heavier correlation with fatality in motorcycling (I'm not 100% but my understanding is that motorcycles are significantly harder to operate in such a way that dui effects are multiplied).
I'm not sure if this is actually relevant to your discussion, I just like to discuss the reality of motorcycling (as a person who rides).
On the flip side if you’re a trained rider, licensed, sober and not riding like you have a death wish the stats aren’t anywhere near as bad.
And those are all factors you as a motorcyclist have control over. I’m also a motorcyclist and I used to spend a lot of time crunching numbers on the stats.
I’ve recently been debunking claims that motorcycle fatalities have skyrocketed in Australia. They haven’t, we just have more riders and the stats are being misrepresented following sharp reductions during the covid lockdowns.
The reason I won't ever ride a motorcycle isn't because I'm worried about my ability to ride one safely.
It's because of all the other drivers on the road.