January 10, 2013 at 6:50 am
Aaron CarrollMore depressing fun with the mortality stats from here.
This is deaths from traffic accidents.
Here’s deaths from poisoning:
Here’s deaths from fires:
We’re slightly better at deaths from falls:
Deaths from drownings:
Seriously, what the hell is wrong with us?
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by Romaine F. Johnson on January 10th, 2013 at 09:55
The price of freedom./s
by YP on January 10th, 2013 at 10:25
Without looking beyond the charts to any actual data, here are my guesses as to potential explanations of what they show.
Road traffic accidents: I’m guessing that we drive more as a nation than most of those other countries. It might be interesting to see a chart of accidents per miles (km) driven.
Poisonings: Do we typically have more unsupervised children left alone at home who are able to get into household cleaning products? I’d be interested to see a breakdown by age in this category.
Fires: Do these tend to include more forest fires? Perhaps we have more wooded/forested areas as a percentage of our total geographic area? Or, as I’m thinking, is this related more to the fires I see on the local news that break out in older homes in typically poorer parts of the city which may not have been upgraded to meet modern fire codes.
Drownings: Do we have more swimming pools per capita, especially in the southern parts of the country?
All just unsubstantiated guesses obviously. I just felt compelled to respond given the title of this post.
by Austin Frakt on January 10th, 2013 at 10:49
Poisonings: Does this category include drug overdose? I’ve hit that pretty hard lately and it’s a big source of deaths. More than cars.
by Grande on January 10th, 2013 at 10:26
Us?! What the hell is wrong with FINLAND?!!
by Matt on January 10th, 2013 at 10:26
Never mind us. What about the Finns?
by Floccina on January 10th, 2013 at 12:53
We are a wild culture.
by P. Lee on January 10th, 2013 at 23:03
Tangos not holding things at bay in Finland, eh?