Ok. Xxyzx... what is a "Fact"
I want Your definition so I know what I'm working with.
As for the surgery risk, I posted what I found based on 3 different sources and stated as such when I corrected you the first time.
I also didn't post any personal comments. I don't know you well enough to post personal comments about you so I'm not sure what you mean there.
As for the flying bit...
We all know it's the landings that are the dangerous part. I didn't think I had to be that specific.
I mean I can jump off the top of a 40 story building and we all know that things don't get really interesting until I hit the ground, well I suppose the drag from the wind against my body could cause me to drift into the building and that would hurt I'm sure, maybe I'd die of a heart attack from fear of hitting the ground be for I landed and so that might mess up the simplicity of it all... but we get the point and it doesn't matter.
Ok I need to learn how to use statistics? Ok. What do you mean by that.
I regularly visit my family in TX and I live on the east coast. Now I normally drive because I also have family in TN and I find the whole process enjoyable as well as cheaper if not longer. Technicly that's more dangerous than flying but I can pack what ever the heck I want and I can do what I want on the way and I have a method of transport when I get to my destination.
So if I use statistics correctly and I valued my life over all else. My safest method to get to my family in TX would be to fly a commercial air plane.
Period! End of discussion.
As they say. "Swish! Nothing but net"
You want sources? Fine.
US Department of Transportation.
Transportation statistics annual report for 2013.
Https://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita ... R_2013.pdf
Page 118 year 2012 us air carrier 0 deaths. Passenger car occupants 12,271 deaths.
Page 126 if you want to talk just serious injures.
2011 us air carrier 20 injuries. 2012 passenger car occupants 1,240,000
So more or less which method of transport would you find to be the safest. Or would you suggest I just stay home and skype my family in TX because I might die if I leave the house.
Also. St. Petersburg Paradox? What does a coin flip game/mathematician's puzle from the early mid 1700's have to with air travel? Unless your thinking that the issue works in reverse. Like I have an infinit expected risk IE: death but only if I flip the coin and it lands heads Oh say some big number of times... Like if we pervert the lottory. What if the chance of winning was one in 10 billion. But for every winner someone dies... would you still play?
I'd like to think life is complicated and not so simple to calculate even with an old math puzzle.
As for me being a shill for an airline. Not a bit. I was pulling a statistic at random to use as an example. I could have talked about bee sting deaths and that wouldn't make me a shill for the honny sellers ether.