• Vsauce - Risk a.k.a you'll probably die in 2059
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[video=youtube;w-CK8VxMz9g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-CK8VxMz9g[/video]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud4fNWIFRJE[/media]
die on my birthday hurrah
That's the day after my birthday.
I'll never die.
Never want to fly in a plane ever again
Thanks vsauce for ruining my dream to live forever.
[QUOTE=Fourm Shark;44326560]That survivor bias thing really got me. I had no idea.[/QUOTE] I agree, gave me a really good brain zap when the plane example was brought up.
I am already terribly afraid of death.
Why would I want to know the exact date my parents banged? That's gross. [sp]It's my dad's birthday.[/sp]
The only thing I can remember after watching this video is that my parents banged after meeting at a bar in the August of 1996 :v:
"The average person believes he or she will live longer and healthier than the average person." What if I believed the opposite of that?
[QUOTE=Bat-shit;44328596]"The average person believes he or she will live longer and healthier than the average person." What if I believed the opposite of that?[/QUOTE] You're Finnish? Of course you'll believe the opposite of that.
[QUOTE=cdr248;44326896]Never want to fly in a plane ever again[/QUOTE] you get less micromorts from flying in a plane than from driving in a car also vsauce videos have really improved since 2013 imho
[QUOTE=HybridTheroy;44329399]you get less micromorts from flying in a plane than from driving in a car also vsauce videos have really improved since 2013 imho[/QUOTE] He used to weird me out, but the last few times I've watched something of his, it's always been greatly informative.
I've heard of the survivor bias thing before, but not relating to planes, but rather to the usage of helmets in world war 1, in trenches. They were given helmets to avoid head injuries, but the amount of head injuries increased fivefold. The generals were about to tell the people not to use helmets, but some people who were better at math luckily stopped them and explained them survivor bias, which hinted that though five times more people got head injuries, those would have *died* without the helmets, as "death" and "head injury" are two different things, and in a "death" statistic they didn't really list what caused it. [editline]o[/editline] Cool shit tho
what is this nigga talkin about givin me some along came polly risk analysis bullshit
It's about time. Vsauce always does this thing where they have an interesting video topic in the title but they don't mention it until four minutes in, but this time they've managed to cut to the chase. I thought I'd never see the day.
[QUOTE=Krinkels;44340979]It's about time. Vsauce always does this thing where they have an interesting video topic in the title but they don't mention it until four minutes in, but this time they've managed to cut to the chase. I thought I'd never see the day.[/QUOTE] also the things that usually make me go "woah cool, i didnt know that" in vsauce videos usually tends to be something unrelated to the topic, or while he's on a tangent
[QUOTE=Krinkels;44340979]It's about time. Vsauce always does this thing where they have an interesting video topic in the title but they don't mention it until four minutes in, but this time they've managed to cut to the chase. I thought I'd never see the day.[/QUOTE] They either touch on it for like 60-90 seconds and then move to another topic for 10 minutes or they take their sweet time. Though their last videos in the last year or so have been very good.
[QUOTE=DesolateGrun;44326183]die on my birthday hurrah[/QUOTE] 1 day before my birthday. Yay. 29th November masterrace.
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