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Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics

179 points · 243 comments · viraj_shah

  1. X-Ryl669 · · focus · HN ↗
    In general, a burning man's death rate is close to 100%. Humans are very sissy when the temperature rise above 50°C.
    1. dolmen · · focus · HN ↗
      In fact, that festival is apparently named after a man burning on every occurrence. So the casualities are at least 1 every year, and there is a bias towards males.
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