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Even with this absurd "lottery", air travel would still be safer than most other forms of transportation.

I believe that actually depends on the metric you use. I think it was something along the lines of, compared to car/bus/train/etc it is the safest per mile, but not very safe per trip.



There are very many car "trips" under a mile, but virtually zero in aircraft. You need to compare on a more useful metric, like time spent travelling.


Right, what I'm saying is you should be careful and explicit about your metric and why it is your metric. Otherwise it's just the same old "lies, damned lies, and statistics".




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