This is not a SFW instance. NSFW communities will be tagged, and efforts will be made to keep SFW communities clean, but proceed at your own comfort level.
I openly said you can take issue with the data collection
thank you for your permission. my issue is more with studying small subset of the data carefully chosen to support your theory and then presenting it as if it applied to the whole group.
but the link makes clear
the link makes it anything but clear. it ultimately admits that the sample is manipulated, but doesn’t say how and why.
Even if you took that stat and spread it over all of aviation it’d still be more than cops
ok, fair. it seems i may have underestimated the number of the bush pilots, but i still insist that the presentation is confusing and it presents “specific subset of the pilots” as “pilots”.
thank you for your permission. my issue is more with studying small subset of the data carefully chosen to support your theory and then presenting it as if it applied to the whole group.
the link makes it anything but clear. it ultimately admits that the sample is manipulated, but doesn’t say how and why.
it would be more than “no data”? 😂
https://hostux.pics/images/2026/08/25/Screenshot-from-2026-08-25-14-27-0984d2800ddf65be81.png
one number manipulated, one non-existent, but the conclusion is one is bigger than the other?
the “meme” is tabloid trash. brevity of the format is not an excuse, no one forced the author to present misleading data.
10800 forestry workers in the us in 2024: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/farming-fishing-and-forestry/forest-and-conservation-workers.htm 53 deaths (https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.t03.htm) = a death rate of about .5%, 1 in 200.
826,800 police workers in the us in 2024: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/protective-service/police-and-detectives.htm
132 deaths (https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.t03.htm) = a death rate of about .02%, less than 1 in 2,000.
Edit math and spelling, but check for yourself. Still the difference in magnitude is obvious and always has been.
cool, but that doesn’t really address my complain about pilots. i don’t trust these numbers.
It is on the same website. Not always the same year.
Working pilots: https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/cwc/flying-too-high-workers-fatalities-in-the-aeronautics-field.pdf
80.5 per 100k/ year
Police: https://www.bls.gov/iif/factsheets/fatal-occupational-injuries-police-2018.htm
13.7 per 100k/year
No matter what year you find stats for, pilots outweigh police for death risk. Prove me wrong.
ok, fair. it seems i may have underestimated the number of the bush pilots, but i still insist that the presentation is confusing and it presents “specific subset of the pilots” as “pilots”.