Cub Driver wrote:

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 09:21:17 -0700, Peter
wrote:


http://www.magma.ca/~ocbc/comparat.html


There sure must be a lot of sky-divers, to make "living" more
dangerous than say "snowmobiling."

No, since the small number of skydiving accidents have very little
effect on the overall life expectancy of the population.

'Living' having a higher fatality rate than snowmobiling just means that
you'd need to have a group of people snowmobile for a cumulative total
of more than the average life expectancy (about 74 years or 650000
hours) before one of them would be statistically likely to have a fatal
accident.