Jaws vs. TV

“Twenty-eight children in the United States were killed by falling television sets between 1990 and 1997. That is four timees as many people as were killed by great white shark attacks in the twentieth century. Loosely speaking, this means that watching Jaws on TV is more dangerous than swimming in the Pacific.”


- “The Statistical Shark,” The New York Times, September 6, 2001



[The most interesting thing I read in a dreadful day from hell, work-wise. Found in an old logic textbook I’m skimming through, trying to find a list of fallacies for an idea I have. Yes, I spend my free time skimming through old logic textbooks. What happened to me?!?]