[OC] All-Time Deadliest Accidents and Disasters vs. One Year of Traffic DeathsSubmitted by databeautifier t3_11ij5le in dataisbeautiful
ar243 t1_jb00ix9 wrote
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It's a good graphic visually, but the data comparison had too much cherry picking for it to be a good infographic overall.
And the fact that it's about a very hot topic debate (at least within Reddit, where users typically have a very hostile aggressive stance towards car ownership) just makes me think it's pushing an agenda at the cost of accuracy.
Strange_Ad_6206 t1_jb23hcq wrote
It's comparing data gathered through WHO research (traffic fatalities) with sampling obtained through Wikipedia's list articles. These include mostly incidents significant enough to have their own article.
A less manipulative comparison would be with Wikipedia's list of road accidents.
Also, flood contains one huge outlier in the 1931 China floods in which deaths from subsequent famine and epidemics are included, increasing the number of fatalities from ~150,000 to 4 million, and that is just one example.
ar243 t1_jb26smq wrote
The problem is that OP is comparing two different things.
One is the sum of all deaths year round, the other is a single event that lasts for a few hours to a few days at most.
The other problem is exposure. Most people drive every day, but most people aren't in a natural disaster every day.
It's just a bad way to compare data.
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