The Reality Check panel delivers a morbidly merry episode this holiday season! Pat goes down under to see if Adelaide is worthy of its ‘murder capital’ rep, while Cristina presents the odds of dying on your birthday. Next, Adam relaxes into a segment about the dangers of sitting, and Darren investigates recent homicide rates in Canada.
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SHOW NOTES
Is Adelaide a Murder Capital?
Adelaide Now: Killing Adelaide’s Murder Myth
Joanne Lee: Murder in the Outback
Wikipedia: Cities By Murder Rate
Australian Institute of Criminology: Serial Murder
The Guardian: Australian Murder Stats
Daily Mail’s Misleading Headline
Radford University: Serial Killer Stats
Odds of Dying On Your Birthday
Science Direct: A not so happy day after all: Excess death rates on birthdays in the U.S.
Daily Mail: How birthdays can be deadly
Business Insurance: Birthdays carry greater risks than having too much fun
Annals of Epidemiology: Death has a preference for birthdays—an analysis of death time series
The Independent: Celebrate your big day as if it’s your last… it may well be
BBC: Are you more likely to die on your birthday?
Is Sitting Killing You?
Sitting Is Killing You [Infographic]
The Truth About “The Truth About Sitting Down”
Sitting All Day Isn’t As Bad If You Do This – Time
Homicide in Canada
Show notes to follow.
Hi all,
Great podcast, as usual!
At 41:13 I believe your are committing a base rate fallacy, since the proportion of gang members in the population is quite low (0.24 out of 1,000 people in Canada according to this source). If my calculations are correct, you are about 1,000 times less likely to be murdered if you don’t belong to a gang. So the point you used to make with people who are afraid of being murdered seems reasonable to me.
Pierre
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