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Originally Posted by Claeren
Regarding fight or flight response.
Just a little while ago I saw some study that had examined how people had responded during ferry (passenger boat) sinkings/emergencies and I believe (trying to remember exact numbers but the point is the same) they had concluded that ~80% panic and run/jump away from where the masses think there is danger towards where the masses think there is safety, 12% freeze and go into shock and 8% remain relatively logical and try to help the masses and/or themselves and/or address the original problem.
This was not said in what i read, but i imagine that mere 8% that remain logical likely have training/experience with the particular problem and that given a type of problem equally as dangerous but of a different nature they too would be panicing (and some of those prior 80% would then be clear thinking and replace them in the 8% group).
So yeah, seems to me about 1%-2% are able to think clearly in emergencies like this without training and another 6%-7% with training.
On a bus in the middle of no where I am not surprised people just got themselves out of immediate danger.
Claeren.
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wouldn't getting away from the knife wielding psycho already in the process of beheading some guy and then stopping him from getting to everyone else by trapping him on the bus be the logical thing to do? I dunno - everyone has a different view of what the 'logical' solution is but to me, preventing anyone else from being killed would be my first priority.