What’s with the random comparisons? Sometimes it’s the whole US, sometimes specific parts. What does 500 rides mean? Annual deaths per 100’000 population per 500 rides?
Yeah but I don’t understand how it would combine with the 500 rides. Were they counting only people who rode 500 times a year? Or is the implication that for this line they didn’t go by 100000 people, but instead by 500 rides? That would make it incomparable. I just don’t get it
Although saying per capita here would be misleading, because it’s not like those people ride the subway 500 times AND drives a car everywhere. The ones who take the subway are the only ones at risk of subway homocide, the ones who drive are actually less likely to die in a traffic accident than people outside of their car like pedestrians and bikers, and the two groups probably are much different in size.
What’s with the random comparisons? Sometimes it’s the whole US, sometimes specific parts. What does 500 rides mean? Annual deaths per 100’000 population per 500 rides?
The per 100,000 is pretty standard for per capita
Yeah but I don’t understand how it would combine with the 500 rides. Were they counting only people who rode 500 times a year? Or is the implication that for this line they didn’t go by 100000 people, but instead by 500 rides? That would make it incomparable. I just don’t get it
Oh I had to go back to see what you were referring to with the 500 rides thing… Maybe that’s the sample size for NYC?
Although saying per capita here would be misleading, because it’s not like those people ride the subway 500 times AND drives a car everywhere. The ones who take the subway are the only ones at risk of subway homocide, the ones who drive are actually less likely to die in a traffic accident than people outside of their car like pedestrians and bikers, and the two groups probably are much different in size.
Yes 500 is about the average number of rides that an NYC subway commuter takes per year. Since all the other stats are also per year.
500 rides a year per rider
So they only counted those who did 500 rides a year? Or they counted 50’000’000 rides as a proxy for 100’000 subway users?