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<blockquote data-quote="James" data-source="post: 136917" data-attributes="member: 2">Was reading an article that listed the most fatal jobs according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and a comment made me look something up. First here's the chart. I should note that this is a list of most fatal (deaths) and not most dangerous jobs. The danger level of a job is opinion, number of fatalities is not.&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]15651[/ATTACH]&nbsp;&nbsp;What peaked my interest is a comment that wondered where the job of President would fit in...&nbsp;We've had 44 presidents.8 have died while in office.&nbsp;&nbsp;Adjusted that would be 18,181 per 100,000. However that can't be plugged directly into the chart above as those figures are yearly (this being lifetime). So if we divide that by the number of years that we've had a president (224 years), it'd come out to ~.036 per year. Or adjusted it would be ~81 per 100,000 per year. Unless my thought process is way off. <img src="https://www.dirtbikeaddicts.com/static/images/smilies/lol.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="lol&nbsp; &nbsp; :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />&nbsp;Edit:Ok that last part might be off. The .036 per year should be adjusted to 100,000 and not the 18,181 divided by 224 (years) correct? In which case it would be 3,600 per 100,000.&nbsp;Coach aka Mathwise aka Nighthawk, help me out here!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James, post: 136917, member: 2"] Was reading an article that listed the most fatal jobs according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and a comment made me look something up. First here's the chart. I should note that this is a list of [B]most fatal[/B] (deaths) and [B]not[/B] most dangerous jobs. The danger level of a job is opinion, number of fatalities is not. [ATTACH=full]15651[/ATTACH] What peaked my interest is a comment that wondered where the job of President would fit in... We've had 44 presidents. 8 have died while in office. Adjusted that would be 18,181 per 100,000. However that can't be plugged directly into the chart above as those figures are yearly (this being lifetime). So if we divide that by the number of years that we've had a president (224 years), it'd come out to ~.036 per year. Or adjusted it would be ~81 per 100,000 per year. Unless my thought process is way off. :lol: Edit: Ok that last part might be off. The .036 per year should be adjusted to 100,000 and not the 18,181 divided by 224 (years) correct? In which case it would be 3,600 per 100,000. Coach aka Mathwise aka Nighthawk, help me out here! [/QUOTE]

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