armour_guitarist
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| posted on 2005-10-13 at 22:39 |
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Survey (Please take a look)
alright, so i'm doing a school project on what people think of risks. our whole class is supposed to poll people on what they think is a risk to
their health, and when we get the results, our teacher is going to show us the actual stats of how risky these things actually are. if you guys could
help me out, that would be awesome. unfortunately we are only alowed to ask people from ages 17 and up, so some of you wont be able to participate.
so basically i need you to rate the following risks on a scale from 1 to 10, with 10 being an activity or event which you precieve as a great risk to
an average person in north america, and one being an activity or event which you precieve as a minor risk to an average person. In other words, what
is the liklihood that an average person will die from this activity?
Natural Disasters:
Structure Fires:
Drowning:
Driving an Automobile:
Drinking Tap Water:
Tobacco Use:
Bicycling:
Medical X-Rays:
Flying on Commercial Airlines:
Being Slightly Overweight:
Being Severely Overweight:
Pesticide Residues on Food:
AIDS:
Living with a Smoker:
Toxic Waste:
Living in Poverty:
Indoor Air Pollution:
Outdoor Air Pollution:
Alcohol Use:
Drug Abuse:
so that's it, 1-10...
i also need your full name (first and last) and your age.
it would be best if you were to fill this out and either pm or e-mail your answers to me, because posting your results can influence other people.
also please be honest. this is a class project and if my results are not honest, it will throw off the class average.
oh and when this is done, i'll share the actual probability that you have of dying from these things, and you can compare your scores.
thanks to all who participate.
Some things take more than a lifetime.
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tremendous
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| posted on 2005-10-14 at 03:46 |
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you say the average person in north america. can britons not participate then?
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SideO_JR
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| posted on 2005-10-14 at 04:02 |
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o ian i thinki forgot to tell you Jorge Robinson, 17
How do you communicate those emotions that are so intense that no physical expression or series of words can even scratch the surface?
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armour_guitarist
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| posted on 2005-10-14 at 07:20 |
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yeah bart, we arent supposed to do people from outside of north america, because the statistics we are going to compare it to are going to be
statistics of people in north america. however, i really dont think that most people from Europe are going to have completely different ideas of risk,
so i think i'll just let you do it. it's not like my teacher is going to ask me where the people i surveyed lived or anything. so
i'd say go for it.
Some things take more than a lifetime.
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tremendous
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| posted on 2005-10-14 at 17:12 |
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i'll pass, i think we probably generally do have a different idea of risk.
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Chris
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| posted on 2005-10-14 at 23:41 |
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i concur.
ta bi
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SideO_JR
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| posted on 2005-10-14 at 23:49 |
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be interesting to run our own survey tho and see if thats true
How do you communicate those emotions that are so intense that no physical expression or series of words can even scratch the surface?
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Sin Ogaris
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| posted on 2005-10-15 at 03:34 |
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Damn, so I filled it out for nothing. Although I did look at it from what I knew of American culture as opposed to my own, so maybe it's all
good, or it could be interesting to include the opnion of someone outside the group just to see how wrong/right the rest of the World can be about a
country.
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tremendous
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| posted on 2005-10-15 at 14:36 |
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just spotted something. you ask "what is the liklihood that an average person will die from this activity?"
for something like "drowning", it's a 10. you can't drown without dying, no matter how many times you try. drowning's
pretty lethal - i suppose what you actually mean (and how everyone will be understanding it anyway) is how likely is the average person to drown, to
die in a structure fire, to die as a direct result of flying in a plane, etc.
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little_lady
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| posted on 2005-10-15 at 17:55 |
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eh, i didn't quite answer the survey like that. :s
you won't let me down...
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armour_guitarist
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| posted on 2005-10-15 at 20:26 |
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yeah, bart, that would be it. the thing is it is a little unclear, even to me. the directions i wrote at the top were a direct quote from the handout
that my teacher gave me, so it's not really my fault.
Dez, that's ok.
so thanks to everyone that has replyed so far, you guys rule.
Some things take more than a lifetime.
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The_virus
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| posted on 2005-10-15 at 23:51 |
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I'm comatose, passed out cold, lost the flame that lit my soul...
The way I'm going to answer it is "what is the probability of dying from the following activities?". True, you can't drown
without dying, but how likely do I think it is that I will drown, become obsese and get an embolism, get in an automobile accident etc.
The Virus Runs Rampant
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armour_guitarist
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| posted on 2005-11-1 at 23:50 |
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ok, i need 3 more by friday. and for everyone who participated, we are finding out the results on friday as well, so i'll let you guys know.
Some things take more than a lifetime.
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armour_guitarist
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| posted on 2005-11-4 at 01:22 |
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so we got the real results back in class today. here's what the actual numbers are so you can all compare them to yours:
Natural Disasters: 1
Structure Fires: 3
Drowning: 3
Driving an Automobile: 7
Drinking Tap Water: 1
Tobacco Use: 10
Bicycling: 3
Medical X-Rays: 2
Flying on Commercial Airlines: 1
Being Slightly Overweight: 9
Being Severely Overweight: 10
Pesticide Residues on Food: 4
AIDS: 5
Living with a Smoker: 6
Toxic Waste: 2
Living in Poverty: 10
Indoor Air Pollution: 6
Outdoor Air Pollution: 6
Alcohol Use: 6
Drug Abuse: 6
and my teacher gave us a better explanation of what these numbers mean. they took all the people that have died in north america and ranked the cause
of deaths according to the number of people who died from that activity. so really it should have been "on a scale from 1 to 10, 1 being the
least and 10 being the most, rank how many people have died from the following activites." so basically you have a better chance of dying from
the ones that are ranked 10 than anything else.
anyway we graphed it and it was interesting to see where people over and under estimated.
for my set of surveys, on average, people appeared to overestimate:
Natual Disasters
Aids
Drug Abuse
Toxic Waste
and people seemed to underestimate:
Being Slightly Overweight
Being Severely Overweight
Pesticide Residues on Food
Living in Poverty
Indoor Air Pollution
Outdoor Air Pollution
Some things take more than a lifetime.
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SideO_JR
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| posted on 2005-11-4 at 04:14 |
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i did the test in my shoes, what is the chance i will die from those things...so it was way off
How do you communicate those emotions that are so intense that no physical expression or series of words can even scratch the surface?
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Sin Ogaris
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| posted on 2005-11-4 at 14:23 |
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How do you die from being slightly overweight?
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Chris
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| posted on 2005-11-4 at 14:44 |
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quotation:
Originally posted by Sin Ogaris
How do you die from being slightly overweight?
when you're leaving the tube and the door shuts on your beer belly, ripping you alongside it and right into the wall of a tunnel.
ta bi
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The_virus
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| posted on 2005-11-4 at 21:25 |
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Dead end
"Overweight" is a really bad term because your weight isn't as important as your fat composition. If you weigh a lot because
you're very muscular, it's not nearly as bad as being the same weight because of fat.
I'm just surprised automobile accidents and drugs/alcohol aren't higher. Maybe drugs and alcohol are more contributing factors?
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