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48 Post author: katydee 30 January 2013 12:46PM

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 31 January 2013 08:03:25AM 10 points [-]

I do happen to know many (10+) people who died for reasons that would have been avoidable had they or someone around them been more observant

Do you have an unusual occupation or something? I know of virtually zero accidental deaths in my circle of friends and acquaintances, so I'm wondering what's going on here.

Comment author: Alicorn 31 January 2013 07:56:48PM 9 points [-]

katydee just knows a bizarre cross-section of the population in full generality. He tells fascinating stories about his weird friends at social gatherings. This doesn't surprise me at all about him in particular, but I don't think we should take it as strong evidence about people in general.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 31 January 2013 11:44:57AM 0 points [-]

There's gotta be someone at the pointy part of the bell curve.

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