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1 in 4 car accidents are caused by texting
and driving]
People: "Won' t be me."
1 in 292 million chance of winning the
Powerball)
People: "You never knew."
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#9 - mrhandss (11 hours ago) [-]
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User avatar #31 to #9 - alpako (7 hours ago) [-]
yeah, a chance to die in a fiery crash
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User avatar #26 - bothemastaofall (8 hours ago) [-]
Well you also have to consider the consequences

Car accident = massive injury with possible death
Buying powerball ticket = out a few bucks

W8 this logic just became more retarded.
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User avatar #53 to #26 - priestofkarp (5 hours ago) [-]
But it's not usually just a few bucks. People that do powerball and stuff like that do it all the time. A few bucks builds up after doing it hundreds of times
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User avatar #17 - hoponthefeelstrain (9 hours ago) [-]
I hate that people are like "okay I know texting and driving is bad, but that doesn't mean I can't snapchat and drive, or flip threw my music and drive, or vine and drive because it's not texting so it's okay"
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User avatar #19 to #17 - sgtmajjohnson (9 hours ago) [-]
I like your profile pic. Because Sgt. Maj. Johnson.
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User avatar #20 to #19 - hoponthefeelstrain (8 hours ago) [-]
I never played the game, my good friend stoicnick was tired I didn't have a profile picture and had me use this one.
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User avatar #48 to #20 - oxymoronking (6 hours ago) [-]
hey! i know that cunt
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User avatar #37 to #20 - stoicnick (7 hours ago) [-]
"good friend"
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User avatar #38 to #37 - hoponthefeelstrain (7 hours ago) [-]
should have said stalker *******
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User avatar #39 to #38 - stoicnick (7 hours ago) [-]
sounds about right
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User avatar #40 to #39 - hoponthefeelstrain (7 hours ago) [-]
I forgot fag
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User avatar #42 to #40 - stoicnick (7 hours ago) [-]
fucboi* can't you spell you uneducated ho
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User avatar #73 to #42 - dreygur (15 minutes ago) [-]
fuccboi**
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User avatar #21 to #20 - sgtmajjohnson (8 hours ago) [-]
Still has Avery Johnson, so I like it. If you're big on feels stuff, it's kind of appropriate, although they hug more out of fear than feels.
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User avatar #36 to #21 - stoicnick (7 hours ago) [-]
Don't forget the assgrab
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User avatar #61 to #36 - sgtmajjohnson (4 hours ago) [-]
NEVER forget the assgrab.
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#22 to #17 - nebuelaeus (8 hours ago) [-]
while being just as unsafe as texting, they are technically correct in that performing other tasks on you phone, like a call, are not illegal in many states.
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User avatar #27 to #22 - hoponthefeelstrain (8 hours ago) [-]
actually depending on the state just holding your phone in your hand can get you pulled over.
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User avatar #41 to #27 - stoicnick (7 hours ago) [-]
"many states"
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#28 to #27 - nebuelaeus (8 hours ago) [-]
"many states"
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User avatar #1 - lathyrusvii (17 hours ago) [-]
Yay, bias.
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#5 - anon (12 hours ago) [-]
I've yet to meet someone who actually wants to have a car accident
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#13 - recoveryone (10 hours ago) [-]
That's about the arithmetic skill you'd expect from someone who actually plays the Powerball with the intent to win...
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#44 to #13 - anon (7 hours ago) [-]
As opposed to playing it with intent to lose?
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User avatar #50 to #44 - ilovehitler (6 hours ago) [-]
The point, for most people, of playing these lotteries isn't that they expect to win, though that wouldn't be unwelcome. It's more the creation of hope- from the time they purchase that ticket until the time they find out it's a loser, they can hope that they won't have to go to a job hate ever again. They won't be saddled with debts that they've forgotten the cause of, or a wife and children they've long since grown distant towards, or the forced interaction between acquaintances who feel like they need to grow closer.
Lotteries allow for the hope to live whatever life you'd like, and for most people, that's worth a couple bucks a week.
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#52 to #50 - innocentbabies (6 hours ago) [-]
Wow, dude, that was, ummm, pretty dark. You alright, buddy?
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#54 to #52 - anon (5 hours ago) [-]
real people talk about real **** bless up
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#74 to #50 - anon (3 minutes ago) [-]
Damn son
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User avatar #63 to #50 - rockamekishiko (4 hours ago) [-]
and all this time i thought people just wanted to be rich
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#59 - grandthefthollow ONLINE (4 hours ago) [-]
Jokes on you, I bought two tickets, so I have a chance of 2 in 292 million!
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#60 to #59 - ExorArgus (4 hours ago) [-]
Good joke.
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#11 - anon (10 hours ago) [-]
That's not a fair comparison though.
They'd have to say the odds of being in a car accident, which also probably varies by region and demographics. Powerball odds are same across the board
Still a fair point, never text and drive.
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#43 - anon (7 hours ago) [-]
**anonymous used "*roll picture*"**
**anonymous rolled image** how the **** are you going to help me
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#69 to #43 - colalars ONLINE (2 hours ago) [-]
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User avatar #57 - shadowdoogen (4 hours ago) [-]
Trying to win the lottery is like trying to commit suicide by commercial airline.
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#72 - xgeneration (50 minutes ago) [-]
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Are people really comparing luck with being a complete ******* moron.
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User avatar #68 - ChewyConor (2 hours ago) [-]
This is a known psychological phenomenon though. People generally have no concept of large probabilities. They're very difficult to imagine accurately, you really have to rationally know that the odds are unrealistic to have an accurate view.

Also for people whining about the car crash odds, 2.4 million people get killed, injured or become disabled via car crash in the US each year.

Just looking at the fatality rate of car crashes in the US, it currently stands at about 3 deaths per 100 million miles driven.
Assuming that translates linearly, every 10,000 miles you drive, theres a 0.00333% chance of dying, or 1 in 30,000. Factor in your own driving in distance, then give yourself an honest appraisal of whether you drive cautiously, patiently, defensively, and on mainly highways, or hastedly, impatiently, aggressively and mainly in urban settings to figure out if you're likely to be more or less likely that the stated figure.

Every 1 mile you drive, your odds of dying are about the same as the odds of powerball success. Your chances of an injury or non-serious crash are substantially greater.
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#56 - ottox (4 hours ago) [-]
you pay for the excitement and the fantasy of spending that money.
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#71 to #56 - anon (54 minutes ago) [-]
In reality for most people winning the lottery could very well be the worst thing that ever happens to them, 33% go bankrupt, 20x the chance of being victims of homicide, 201x higher chances of being killed by a relative, unless you find a way to remain anonymous you will be pestered by absolutely anyone and everyone for money, acquire stalkers, people break into all your **** looking for loot, give money to relatives which then go and over dose and kill themselves

Money IS power, the vast majority of the population has no idea what to do with that power and they would be better off without it
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#62 - rotiart (4 hours ago) [-]
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**rotiart rolled image** <-- You have to be at least this American to feel "touched" by this post.
What the OP doesn't say are the chances that you are actually IN a car crash in the first place. I've texted and driven a lot of times, sometimes went good while other times almost went wrong. I've learned now to just wait until I'm at least in a a good traffic jam before checking that text.
tl;dr Chances that you encounter a car crash in the first place didn't get add up by this moron.
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#66 to #62 - hasinvadedyou (3 hours ago) [-]
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**hasinvadedyou rolled image**people love sensationalized numbers, 1 out of 3 people know this.
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User avatar #70 to #62 - ChewyConor (2 hours ago) [-]
You are correct that the statistic is misleading, but the true statistic isn't a comfort.
Roughly 3 deaths per 100 million miles driven, with 33,000 deaths per year, on top of 2.35 million injuries.

I couldn't find in my 2 minute Google the actual number of car crashes in the US, but just working out the fatalities, you've a 3/100,000,000 chance of dying or killing someone per mile. Roughly 1 in 3333 if you drive 10,000 miles per year. Or working backwards, odds if powerball are 292 million, right? So the same as a road fatality for about every 1/10th of a mile of driving.
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User avatar #35 - leonhardt (7 hours ago) [-]
WOW WHAT A DISCOVERY

"PEOPLE DO WHATEVER THE **** THEY WANT REGARDLESS OF RISKS"

AMAZING
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#65 - anon (3 hours ago) [-]
Your statement is a bit misleading though, I understand that its a higher chance of getting in a car wreck but saying "1 in 4 accidents are caused by texting" says nothing about the odds of actually dying in a car wreck. if you said "1 in 4 lottery wins are caused by choosing your own numbers" it says nothing about your actual chances of winning the lottery, only that you ave a 1 in 4 chance of the cause.
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User avatar #58 - izdubar (4 hours ago) [-]
Technically, they could both be the same chance - the first one is a frequency of a cause to an effect (with an unknown probability), the second one is a frequency of an effect over a general population. Yeah, in this case we KNOW that car crashes happen a lot more often than lottery wins...but still, it's kinda dishonest to compare apples and oranges.
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User avatar #49 - slapchoppin (6 hours ago) [-]
1 in 4 chance that IF you get in an accident it'll be that

what are the actual odds of getting in an accident?
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#55 to #49 - anon (5 hours ago) [-]
More than 1 in 292 million.
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User avatar #67 to #55 - slapchoppin (2 hours ago) [-]
less than 25% though
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#47 - anon (6 hours ago) [-]
Its cause in the first one you have direct control so you think you can avoid it. The second its purely up to chance so anyone could win it in theory.
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