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- Subject: Re: Bull Fighting (was A-word)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.214857.27118@nezsdc.icl.co.nz>
- From: hugh@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Hugh Grierson)
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 21:48:57 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.233243.26965@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <1993Jan26.221612.24457@nas.nasa.gov> <Jan26.234207.55670@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
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- In article <Jan26.234207.55670@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> trzyna@CS.ColoState.EDU (wayne trzyna) writes:
- >As I see it, skiing is more likely to injure you (because of the velocity)
- >whereas climbing is more likely to kill you (because of the velocity).
- >
- >Climbing accidents are less likely but more severe, I'm guessing.
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- Only if you exclude tendonitis and small abrasion injuries (I'll look up
- the R&I survey on this). So where on the injury scale do you draw the line?
- Death sounds like the right point to me.
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- I was contemplating a rough "injury expectation" index for sports:
- sum over X of (prob of injury X * severity of injury X). But how do you
- decide on a finite severity level for death? Infinite severity tends to
- skew the index somewhat...
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- Hugh Grierson Fujitsu/ICL New Zealand - Software Development Centre
- hugh@nezsdc.icl.co.nz
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