elizabethb said...
I am talking about Shark Deaths and Car Road tolls which we all know within Australia to be fairly accurate. That is why I mentioned three various sources of information; we all know the road tolls just over Christmas, which is similar throughout the year.
I am not inferring that all worldwide statistics to be accurate. There is a major proportion of these to be twisted and manipulated into what they want the general public to hear. As you just turned my comment on statistics, into making me sound naive and easily manipulated by editing my quote...
Somewhat bemusing..
I think it is wrong to quote the car stat - yes you have a very good chance of dying in a car, but the swim/ shark attack stat is lowered heaps because they just divide the amount of people who swim in the ocean each year by the number of shark attacks. Fact is every time you are on the road you can be in danger but everytime you swim in the ocean you are not. You can swim in the ocean in places there have never been and likely never will be a shark attack - the vast majority of places are like this. Shallow or unattractive areas for sharks. But there are also places and activities that will give you a much higher percentage and that's why the statistic annoys me. I'm not saying dont do these activites, but if you quote the statistic to yourself as you paddle out on dusk in a shark hotspot, or swim in a qld canal, or in an area where great whites are common, then you are kidding yourself. It's an inaccurate statistic. It's like fishing. Where would I go to catch a big shark? Some places you wouldn't waste your time, others you have a good chance.
