[–] Alias_Unknown 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
Statistically, you'll meet a serial killer during your lifetime.
[–] lodro 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
That definitely isn't true everywhere, and I seriously doubt that it's true anywhere. Murder is quite uncommon itself, and serial killing is extremely uncommon.
Even meeting a future murderer seems like a long shot for most people.
Also, I don't believe you understand how statistics are done. Statistically, x will happen? So the probably is 1? In that case, it's hard to see how this could be a statistical conclusion - statistics is a branch of math used to consider the likelihood of uncertain events. Your claim is self-contradictory.
So where's the math?
[–] pm_me_firearms 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Well, think about how many people you meet.
[–] Truly 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
While I completely agree his claim doesn't pass my smell test I think you are being a bit obtuse on the second part.
I'd say most people would understand "statistically" to mean "You are more likely than not". So assuming the chance of living your life and meeting a serial killer is greater than not.
[–] penguincheerleader 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
The gauntlet has been thrown down, /u/Alias_Unknown can you bring up the statistics and do the math?
[–] Apoplectic1 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago
A significant portion of people who attempt to kill themselves by shooting themselves in the head will miss vital portions of their brain and will survive with a severely disfigured head/face.
[–] stanthedanman 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I tried to kill myself by shooting. Guns misfired and or locked 8 times.
Thats one way to survive
[–] ZappyKins 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
My friend is an MD and she would talk about this. How hard they would work to save someone's life - only to have them do it again a few months later. Or be so broken and messed up they are little more than a vegetable stuck in a hospital and can not kill themselves now if they wanted too.
It was really sad.
[–] Limpingdead 0 points 9 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago
8 million children worldwide go missing each year.
[–] Jailbreaker 0 points 18 points 18 points (+18|-0) ago
Y'know that scene in Milo and Otis, where Milo, in a box, falls down a waterfall? Well, the first Milo didn't survive that fall. I wanna say... the first seven didn't? Maybe more. But there were a whole bunch of Milos that died during the making of the movie.
[–] Spectral 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eci5k46WEFc this scene?
[–] Scotcheggs 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
That's really not a very big drop. I can't see how any cat could die from that even if things did go horribly wrong. Even if it tipped over and the cat fell out at the very top of the drop it still wouldn't die. The depth of the water and speed of the current are also not enough that the cat would drown.
[–] WontBeSilencedAnymor 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago (edited ago)
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[–] pm_me_firearms ago
How do we know the mass of all remaining fish?
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[–] I_Bake_Good_Cookies 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I live in Minneapolis and I learned last year sometime that the Mall of America is a hub for sex slave trafficking because there are so many people and so many tourists.
[–] mike_blair 0 points 18 points 18 points (+18|-0) ago
And the complicity of people in authority.
[–] Apoplectic1 0 points 14 points 14 points (+14|-0) ago
Not just complicity, but participation in certain instances.
[–] ClownSplooge 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
People who get their penis cut off get phantom Penis sensations
http://www.cracked.com/article_22462_6-things-i-learned-having-my-penis-surgically-removed_p2.html