18-12-08, 01:56 | #1 |
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US "Death Map"
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Heat/Drought: 19.6 percent of nature-caused deaths Severe Summer Weather: 18.8 percent Winter Weather: 18.1 percent Flooding: 14 percent Tornadoes: 11.6 percent Lightning: 11.3 percent Geophysical Events (such as earthquakes, wildfires and hurricanes): Less than 5 percent Coastal (such as storm surge, rip currents and coastal erosion): 2.3 percent |
18-12-08, 02:27 | #2 |
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I am so confused what does <-0.50 Std. Dev. mean?
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18-12-08, 02:37 | #3 |
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18-12-08, 07:05 | #4 |
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std. dev. stands for standard deviation.
"A large standard deviation indicates that the data points are far from the mean and a small standard deviation indicates that they are clustered closely around the mean." (I couldn't be bothered to explain it myself, good ol' wiki ) |
18-12-08, 07:07 | #5 |
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So I am likely to die from floods, tornados and heat? Wonderful!
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18-12-08, 07:28 | #6 |
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Mine has a high chance of dying....
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