.ill AT&T; 5:51 PM 58% Done HW Handout.docx d) How many times greater is the lif
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.ill AT&T; 5:51 PM 58% Done HW Handout.docx d) How many times greater is the life expectancy of Canadian man than the life expectancy of a man from the US? (2005) In the August issue of Popular Science James Vlahos wrote: Risk assessors rip their hair out at the general public's innumeracy; many people jump to conclusions based only on absolute numbers and don't consider ratios as well. For example, the average number of people killed each year in hot- air balloon accidents is 2.6, while the number killed in hunting accidents is 600. But there are two million hunters in the U.S and just 3,000 hot-air balloonists, which makes ballooning's death rate 30 times as high as that of hunting. a. What does Vlahos mean by innumeracy? b. What is the rate of death for ballooning in deaths balloonist? per c. What is the rate of death for ballooning in balloonists per death? d. What is the rate of death for hunting in deaths per hunter? e. What is the rate of death for hunting in hunters per death? g. Vlahos claims that the ballooning's death rate is 30 times as high as that of hunting. Do your computations agree?Explanation / Answer
a) Vlahos define the innumeracy as many people jump to conclusions based only on absolute numbers and don't consider ratios as well.
b) The rate of death for death for ballooning in deaths per balloonist = 2.6 per 3000 balloonist
c) The rate of death for death for ballooning in balloonists per death = 3000/2.6
d) The rate of death for hunting in deaths per hunter = 600 per 2 million hunters
e) The rate of death for hunting in hunters per death = 2 million hunters / 600
f) Yes the computations are correct
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