Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
You are right, the posted graph is a simple way of looking at the gathered "data", but does not come close to providing any useful information about the actual risk incurred by participation in any of those activities.
The odds of dying by legal execution is very low for the public at large; the risk for those who participate in the activity are quite high.
Risk is not determined or evaluated by gathering data on the odds of any single activity occurring in a lifetime, but rather evaluating the likelihood that negative events will occur when (and if) exposed to the "hazard", as well as the likely severity of the negative event.
So what you are saying is if I ride a bike 10,000 miles a year and drive a car... never, then I'm at an infinitely higher risk of dying on a bike than I am in dying in a car?
Then I'll stop riding a bike and drive my car. But wouldn't that make driving an infinitely higher risk than riding?
We can simplify the chart by saying that LIVING = 1 in 1 risk of DYING. Now that it's all evened out, we can all just go about the business of living... and riding.
