OT? Lightning

[Jeff Liebermann]

On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 17:38:20 -0500, amdx <nojunk@knology.net> wrote:

On 7/8/2014 11:50 AM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Tue, 08 Jul 2014 04:55:56 -0400, micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com
wrote:

So if you're willing to stand in the rain in the open space, you might
as well play golf. Hard to beleive after all these years.

Lightning safety tips and facts -- and which activities are more
dangerous than golfing.
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2014/06/lightning_safety_tips_and_fact.html
Soccer is the deadliest sport when it comes to lightning. Of
the sports activities, soccer saw the greatest number of
deaths with 12 (golf had eight).

Ahh, statistics,

Groan, statistics.

How do we account for deaths per man hour performing the activity?
Seems to be US stats, I would think there is a lot more total
(man hours performing the activity) for golf than soccer. so soccer
would seem to be much more dangerous than the 12 vs 8 shows.
Mikek

There are two ways to do it. One is fatalities per hour of the
activity. The other is fatalities per year, ignoring any differences
in popularity and length of activity. Since insurance billing is by
the month, and such statistics usually come from insurance actuaries,
such articles usually use fatalities per month or year. I agree that
it would make more sense to rate the danger level by the hours of
activity or exposure, but obtaining the necessary numbers is
difficult.

I don't have a clue why getting killed by lightning while playing
soccer is more likely than golf. Perhaps because there are more
players (targets) on the field in soccer than in golf. More likely
the deity in charge of soccer is pissed off because of all the bizarre
rule changes:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/24/sports/worldcup/stoppage-time-in-the-world-cup-underscores-soccers-strange-rules.html>
and has decided that some divine intervention is required.
"Spain’s World Cup team plane struck by lightning"
<http://nypost.com/2014/06/24/spains-world-cup-team-plane-struck-by-lightning/>

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