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skigod377 wrote:
Thanks you guys!! That coconut stat will surely help put things in perspective!
Ski, be careful about using the coconut stat.. Since it is worldwide, it would be unfair to use it to compare to dog attacks only here in the us. It could be that worldwide, more people are killed by dogs than coconuts.
Pam Thompson wrote:skigod377 wrote:Thanks you guys!! That coconut stat will surely help put things in perspective!
Ski, be careful about using the coconut stat.. Since it is worldwide, it would be unfair to use it to compare to dog attacks only here in the us. It could be that worldwide, more people are killed by dogs than coconuts.But thats not nearly as fun.
Do you want your speaches “fun”, or “accurate”? Sorry, I tend to be a stickler for details like that. A lot of AR groups twist stats to their advantage, and I don’t like it. There is the whole “no one has ever been killed by a wild wolf” stat, when in reality, it is “no one has ever been killed by a healthy wild wolf, in the United states, within the last century. Or “XX,XXX people die/become sick every year from salmonella, which is transmitted by reptiles”, implying that all those people got salmonella from reptiles, when in reality, reptile-transmitted salmonella accounts for only a very minute portion of all salmonella cases in the US.
Pam Thompson wrote:Do you want your speaches “fun”, or “accurate”? Sorry, I tend to be a stickler for details like that. A lot of AR groups twist stats to their advantage, and I don’t like it. There is the whole “no one has ever been killed by a wild wolf” stat, when in reality, it is “no one has ever been killed by a healthy wild wolf, in the United states, within the last century. Or “XX,XXX people die/become sick every year from salmonella, which is transmitted by reptiles”, implying that all those people got salmonella from reptiles, when in reality, reptile-transmitted salmonella accounts for only a very minute portion of all salmonella cases in the US.
Of course I want them accurate, Pam. I would never twist stats. That would discredit me, and therefor my whole speech (And purpose). I will check on the stats 😉 Maybe try to find how many people die worldwide from dog attacks.
That’s the thing.. I don’t know if there even are any stats for dog attacks worldwide. If you find something though, let us know.
Oh, and Ski.. I wasn’t trying to accuse you of twisting stats or anything.. Just trying to explain why I seem so weirdly obsessive over how statistics are used 😀
Pam Thompson wrote:Oh, and Ski.. I wasn’t trying to accuse you of twisting stats or anything.. Just trying to explain why I seem so weirdly obsessive over how statistics are used 😀
I didnt take it bad or anything. I know you are exactly right, and you have no way of knowing if I would do that or not. People do it all the time, which is part of why this stupid breed ban is in effect in the first place.
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