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Originally Posted by The Yen Man
Edit: Hmm, just rethought your argument again. I guess what you're saying is, in our lifetime, each person stands a 2% chance of dying in a car crash rather than each attempt at 2%. Still, given the amount of times we drive, I don't think it's a very good comparable stat they use.
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That's more what I meant. The real point I was trying to make is that the odds of dying on an Everest attempt are actually fairly low. People just get a different impression because we hear more about the ones who die these days than the ones who succeed. The car crash thing was just a point of reference that pulled things off track.