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Originally Posted by PAL
I hear you, but who has the time (or the data) for that?
That is likely why the risk of suffering a shark attack is typically expressed in terms of the overall population. For instance, you have a better chance of getting killed by a falling coconut than you do a shark... blah, blah, blah. That's no help other than in simplistically illustrating the low overall occurrence of death by shark.
Someone who never dips a toe in the ocean has no chance of succumbing, not even if they are Austin Powers (just maybe if the sharks have fricken laser beams).
Life is one big judgement call.
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Sharks don't have laser beams? Sorry, my pet peeve is people using data as statistics, especially politicians and environmentalists.