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what about sea cows?

Yeah, this is such a dumb argument. "Cars are less likely to kill a shark than a dolphin, so cars aren't dangerous" The only reason sharks don't kill more people is they barely come into contact with humans, and when they do it's normally in shark cages with tonnes of precautions, and even when that isn't true people are extra viligant and careful. No one is scared next to a cow.

This is often used as an excellent lesson in something called conditional probability.

Clearly you haven't watched Sharknado. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Gordon, this is it exactly. It's the misrepresentation of statistics. A good book on it is "flaws and fallacies in statistical thinking". I loosely remember a passage in there that talks about missing children, but what is included in most published statistics is people that are into their twenties that just lost touch with family members/moved away to be with someone they love and so on and so forth.

I read your whole post with David's voice in my head. You nailed it.

jayebyrd00 Same here and now I'm wondering just how many hours I've spent listening to David Mitchell talk that I can hear him in my head...

Absolutely nailed it!!

David...? Is that you?

Thumbs up for the brilliant Mitchell channeling ;-) It ought to worry us that your "Davidism" is spot-on: what's happened to us such that a species that rose to the top of the food chain, beating out predators that were bigger, faster, and/or much better naturally armed, has devolved to the point where we're distracted from assessing potentially-fatal threats by $^%#ing *music* ? Small wonder that a study just came out estimating that 250 people have been killed doing stupid dangerous things to get what they thought would be catchy selfies.

Thank you. That's just funny.

Rubber bands.

And fortunately is WAY funnier than both of those hacks could ever be.

Exactly more people are killed by butterflies than black holes each year but I know which one i'd rather be around.

It all depends on context I suppose. I wouldn't jump in the water next to a shark (a big one, nothing against the little nibblers), just like I won't just waltz into a pasture next to an agitated bull.

BootStraps Years before QI, Sean Lock used to say, “Did you know, a shark will only attack you if you’re wet?”

DoopSnogg wins the argument.

No, you are wrong. If you farmed the same number of sharks, the cows are still more dangerous. The number of accidents per encounter is still staggeringly low.

6 people per year globally is still pretty ridiculously low.

and whilst shark don't like human flesh and still often let go. their powerful jaw still leave many people crippled by a shark bite.

Porter Brasell it's not mentioned how cows kill people. I assume it depends on what you feed the cow and then hang around afterwards being gassed.

Brilliant! Next time I see sharks I'm gonna jump right in there!! Is she having a laugh? Probably!

Another part of the reason is that cows are massive and can become aggressive. Not kidding - I got swarmed by cows once and genuinely thought they were going to kill me, had to throw myself over a fence to escape them

That is exactly what they want you to think :O

She presents it that way for the shock value, I agree just statistically they can't be compared, I would rather be a couple steps away from a cow than from a big white, but if it was a whale or a basking shark I don't think I would mind that much. Exposure to sharks isn't that low either, it so happens that not every species will attack you and it is extremely unlikely that the shark you encounter does actually have a taste for human meat. Cows aren't that innocent and can and do decide to attack people, they're not predators but that doesn't mean they are weaponless, and if it decides you're a threat it can surely kill you, just because a shark has the potential to rip you apart while a cow will leave you in one piece doesn't make much of a difference if you're dead. I don't recall any documentaries on sharks that fail to mention attacks on humans or make do without the ominous sounding music, I have seen several of bears, wolves or lions where not a single image or statistic on human attacks are presented, so I think she's right when she says that efforts on preservation have been hindered by the ideas commonly attributed to these sea creatures.

…Or Spielbergs', or Peter Benchleys'…

On a similar note, the only reason we are afraid of mad slashers is because of Bernard Herrmann, the composer for Psycho.

Well, really, it's Peter Benchley's fault, and he has accepted that responsibility, as he later expressed regret over writing the novel.

Johan Branting Spielberg admits he was baffled when Williams played the Jaws theme to him the first time. He’d wanted something more like the Peer Gynt music they play later in this segment.

Michael Gibb One of my favourite moments in Fawlty Towers is just the shot of Basil in bed reading Benchley’s book. Think that episode was shown before the film came out.

I very much doubt a shark ever kills someone accidentally.

Not everyone is a pot head, stop projecting.

Admittedly, the Qi set would be quite a hilarious place to be stoned.

Michael Gibb you will likely find as well that swimming in the ocean does not mean you are swimming with sharks, just as because you are on land you are not necessarily going to see a cow. Especially considering the area of the ocean is considerably larger than the land on which we live, and sharks tend to prefer deeper waters than right near the shoreline. People do however live on land, and they do drive on roads, roads that go past farms. More people are definitely dealing with cows everyday than sharks, their jobs are in the cattle industry and it is likely larger than the amount of people that swim with sharks every day. In California alone 5.5 million people work in the cattle industry, 16 million visit Venice beach annually (the most popular beach in California). If we assume half of the people in the cattle industry work with actual livestock that is still 2.75 million people lets assume they get a week off for christmas, they get the regular holidays off like labor day and independence day as well as thanksgiving they are still around them ~353 days a year. No one spends that much time around sharks, not even the people who study them, unless they work at an aquarium and that is still a difference of likely hundreds of thousands easily.

look, just a big pat on the back for thinking all that through. cows and sharks. ...cows and sharks...., and you took the time to write a whole page of a novel. I respect that. Not taking the piss... I really like that someone bothered to write a whole page of a novel about cows and sharks, and probably nobody was ever going to read it, but they wrote it anyway. cos...cows and sharks. why not?

Pantjay OMG, it is you...!

I'm sure somebody cares. I personally don't. But somewhere, someone does.

Amen. I'm glad I'm not the only one getting really tired of that.

I was just waiting for Sandi to finish what she was saying... took about 80 seconds.

+Obelisk Obelisk, you took the words out of my mouth. I was só done with it after the whole orgasm-imitation that when he did it again during the flute-music, I just wanted to stop the video.

Obelisk it's like a theme with this show. They know the panelists are going to (try to) say something funny but often times the interruptions are more annoying than the joke is funny. And having four people chiming in one by one while the hosts is about to move on to the next thing just makes it even more annoying sometimes. Not to mention that I usually use captions for clarity on everything I watch and being American, sometimes I can't be sure if I just missed a reference due to cultural differences or because I literally couldn't understand what was said because so many people are trying to ramble in at once. Most of these videos don't provide accurate (or any) captions :( but my point is just that I genuinely find interest in many of the topics and of course enjoy a laugh at the comedy side but I'd prefer the light intellectual discourse to the spastic grunts and moans...

It’d be even better if it was unscripted too

Seriously.

The audience are there because they're fans of Alan.