(04-15-2009, 09:19 AM)FLYBOMBER Wrote: Its unsusual for a news paper to say 4 people got injured. If a device has hurt over 20 than it is about a 76% chance. It's unsusual.
That makes absolutely no sense. You can't base the chance of something happening off of the unusuality of it. Nor can you base it off of one newspaper article, which provides only one example of getting hurt, as opposed to all the examples of not getting hurt.
Also, you can't make a percentage off of someone getting hurt. A person's likelyhood to get hurt is subjective; its based off his or her own stupidity and clumsiness, as well as the danger of the situation. Standing on a hunk of plastic isn't a very dangerous situation.
Also, your arithmetic is wrong. 4 out of 20 is 20%, not 76%.