April 24, 2013
The “stupidest, most outrageous statistic I ever heard this week”
Graeme Hill has sent in this clip from his Radio Live show on Sunday. Listen from about 4:30 until 7:00 elapsed.
He calls this quote from ONE News the “stupidest, most outrageous statistic I ever heard this week”:
“Experts say the odds of having two disasters like those in Boston and Texas in the same week are 1 in every 4,800 years.”
The statistic seems to have come from an ABC News story, but there’s no attribution there for the “experts” either.
If that were true, you’d expect major disasters within six weeks of each other only about every 800 years.
October 22-31 2012
December 14, 2012
And that’s without going outside the US.
12 years ago
And in the scheme of things, in whispered tones here with respect to those hurt or traumatised…….. they’re barely disasters.
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And going all the way back to January 2011:
The Tucson shootings on January 8 (6 dead, 14 injured, including Congresswoman Giffords, who was shot in the head but survived), and the massive floods in Brazil on January 11 and 12 that killed more than 900 people.
12 years ago
Suicide Plumber?
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