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Dr. Vincent Quin, Ph.D.
Sep 20, 2012, 8:26:59 PM9/20/12
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America's most dangerous jobs
Fishermen
Fatality rate per 100,000 workers: 121.2
Median wage: $30,220
40 deaths last year
Loggers
Fatality rate per 100,000 workers: 102.4
Median wage: $37,360
64 deaths last year
Airplane pilots
Fatality rate per 100,000 workers: 57
Median wage: $118,070
72 deaths last year
Sanitation workers
Fatality rate per 100,000 workers: 41.2
Median wage: $34,420
34 deaths last year
Roofers
Fatality rate per 100,000 workers: 31.8
Median wage: $38,570
56 deaths last year
Iron workers
Fatality rate per 100,000 workers: 26.9
Median wage: $50,160
16 deaths last year
Farmers and ranchers
Fatality rate per 100,000 workers: 25.3
Median wage: $70,010
260 deaths last year
Truckers and deliverymen
Fatality rate per 100,000 workers: 24
Median wage: $39,830
759 deaths last year
Electrical power line-men
Fatality rate per 100,000 workers: 20.3
Median wage: $59,450
27 deaths last year
Taxi drivers
Fatality rate per 100,000 workers: 19.7
Median wage: $25,020
63 deaths last year
http://money.cnn.com/gallery/pf/2012/09/20/most-dangerous-jobs
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Dr. Vincent Quin, Ph.D.
Dr. Vincent Quin, Ph.D.
Sep 22, 2012, 3:17:46 AM9/22/12
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Dr. Vincent Quin, Ph.D. wrote:
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> America's most dangerous jobs
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> Fishermen
> Fatality rate per 100,000 workers: 121.2
> Median wage: $30,220
> 40 deaths last year
Who thinks their crab dinner was worth 40 lives? An unnecessary luxury.
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> America's most dangerous jobs
>
> Fishermen
> Fatality rate per 100,000 workers: 121.2
> Median wage: $30,220
> 40 deaths last year
All the other occupations are necessary.
�Jones
Sep 22, 2012, 9:27:37 AM9/22/12
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On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:26:59 -0700, in alt.war.vietnam "Dr. Vincent
Quin, Ph.D." <dr...@coldine.edu> wrote:
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>America's most dangerous jobs
Wow!
Quin, Ph.D." <dr...@coldine.edu> wrote:
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>America's most dangerous jobs
Vinney finally posted something useful! He gave me an idea... I'll
use that for a MatLab assignment next week.
Uncle Bill, do you suppose Vinney will ever gain wisdom?
Jones
jonathan
Sep 22, 2012, 9:31:02 AM9/22/12
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"Dr. Vincent Quin, Ph.D." <dr...@coldine.edu> wrote in message
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> America's most dangerous jobs
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> Fishermen
> Fatality rate per 100,000 workers: 121.2
> Median wage: $30,220
> 40 deaths last year
Germany's most dangerous job
> America's most dangerous jobs
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> Fishermen
> Fatality rate per 100,000 workers: 121.2
> Median wage: $30,220
> 40 deaths last year
Slave laborer
Medium wage; 0
Fatality rate; Twelve Million Deaths
Concentration camps
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> Loggers
> Fatality rate per 100,000 workers: 102.4
> Median wage: $37,360
> 64 deaths last year
>
Farmer 1933
Fatalities; Eleven Million Deaths
Starved by Stalin on purpose
> Airplane pilots
> Fatality rate per 100,000 workers: 57
> Median wage: $118,070
> 72 deaths last year
Teacher, Farmer;
Fatalities; Seventy Three Million Deaths
The Cultural Revolution
http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/dictat.html
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Ben
Sep 22, 2012, 9:58:43 AM9/22/12
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The most dangerous job: Interfering other nation's internal affairs
and get killed by the people the US helped: S. Vietnam, Afghanistan,
Iraq, and Lybia.
On Sep 20, 7:25 pm, "Dr. Vincent Quin, Ph.D." <d...@coldine.edu>
wrote:
and get killed by the people the US helped: S. Vietnam, Afghanistan,
Iraq, and Lybia.
On Sep 20, 7:25 pm, "Dr. Vincent Quin, Ph.D." <d...@coldine.edu>
wrote:
Ben
Sep 22, 2012, 10:48:21 AM9/22/12
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Family: Minn. Somali Left to Join Al-Shabab
By AMY FORLITI Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS September 21, 2012 (AP)
A Minnesota man recently traveled to Somalia to join al-Shabab, a
spokesman for his family said, renewing fears that the terror group is
continuing to recruit Somalis living in the U.S. to return to their
homeland to fight.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/minnesota-man-traveled-somalia-join-al-shabab-family-article-1.1164832
�Jones
Sep 22, 2012, 7:32:41 PM9/22/12
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On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 08:27:37 -0500, in alt.war.vietnam �Jones
<jdf...@x.com> wrote:
>Wow!
>
>Vinney finally posted something useful! He gave me an idea... I'll
>use that for a MatLab assignment next week.
>
>Uncle Bill, do you suppose Vinney will ever gain wisdom?
>
>Jones
I was running the numbers in MatLab essentially doing the assignment I
<jdf...@x.com> wrote:
>Wow!
>
>Vinney finally posted something useful! He gave me an idea... I'll
>use that for a MatLab assignment next week.
>
>Uncle Bill, do you suppose Vinney will ever gain wisdom?
>
>Jones
expect my students to do and noticed something interesting:
If you define a job's desirability as the
pay_rate*(1-death_rate/100000) and then sort by that number, you get
exactly the same sort order as you'd get if you simply sorted by
median income and ignored the death rate.
In fact, doubling the death rate for any single vocation while holding
the others constant didn't change the sort order. For relatively
small numbers of people killed per capita 100k, less than 1,000, say,
the wage dominates the equation.
Jones
Ian B MacLure
Oct 6, 2012, 10:01:24 AM10/6/12
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"Dr. Vincent Quin, Ph.D." <dr...@coldine.edu> wrote in
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Funny thing. No mention of tree trimmers.
Local cage liner says its very dangerous.
meport
Oct 6, 2012, 10:39:04 AM10/6/12
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Your statistics are somewhat suspect. If you consider only the fatalities
per 100,000 workers in separate professions then your statistics are
somewhat valid.
http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2012/09/24/americas-10-most-dangerous-jobs/#photo-10
HOWEVER, if you factor into your statistical data the number of disabling
injuries per 100,000 workers that lead to career ending and/or permanent
injury then, which has to be considered when citing statistics about pure
job danger, you have to consider such mundane jobs as being a prostitute
(for male and female sex workers there is a 18% mortality rate and an almost
100% permanent disability rate), housewife (the disability rate for women
who work as a housewife is virtually 100% when you consider all the
disabling accidents they have over the span of their employment),
professional athletes (the disability and mortality rates for professional
athletes is just now being calculated but it's virtually 100% for any type
of professional athlete with professional football linemen leading the list
for most disabilities and the most severe disabilities), etc., etc..
So you have to factor disabilities into your statistical data base. One of
the most disabling jobs there is, believe it or not, is a computer call
center representative. About 100% of all call center representatives end up
with carpel tunnel, neurologic injuries (repetitive motion injuries) and,
believe it or not, urinary and renal related disabling conditions (when you
can only go to the bathroom when you're scheduled to go .......).
And then there are disabling and permanent disabling injuries to nurses and
health care professionals. And to workers in meat plants and the food
preparation industries.
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meport
"Dr. Vincent Quin, Ph.D." wrote in message
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per 100,000 workers in separate professions then your statistics are
somewhat valid.
http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2012/09/24/americas-10-most-dangerous-jobs/#photo-10
HOWEVER, if you factor into your statistical data the number of disabling
injuries per 100,000 workers that lead to career ending and/or permanent
injury then, which has to be considered when citing statistics about pure
job danger, you have to consider such mundane jobs as being a prostitute
(for male and female sex workers there is a 18% mortality rate and an almost
100% permanent disability rate), housewife (the disability rate for women
who work as a housewife is virtually 100% when you consider all the
disabling accidents they have over the span of their employment),
professional athletes (the disability and mortality rates for professional
athletes is just now being calculated but it's virtually 100% for any type
of professional athlete with professional football linemen leading the list
for most disabilities and the most severe disabilities), etc., etc..
So you have to factor disabilities into your statistical data base. One of
the most disabling jobs there is, believe it or not, is a computer call
center representative. About 100% of all call center representatives end up
with carpel tunnel, neurologic injuries (repetitive motion injuries) and,
believe it or not, urinary and renal related disabling conditions (when you
can only go to the bathroom when you're scheduled to go .......).
And then there are disabling and permanent disabling injuries to nurses and
health care professionals. And to workers in meat plants and the food
preparation industries.
---
meport
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Dr. Vincent Quin, Ph.D.
Oct 7, 2012, 1:51:50 PM10/7/12
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Good points.
;-)
;-)
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