• Kafanzi Max. Praetor@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Here there might be a confusion between danger, and statistics.

    all those examples are about events or things that are far more frequent than be near a shark

    if the average person could be close to a shark as many time in life than leaving a bed, be close to something that can flip, or to people taking selfies, statistics might be very different

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      1 year ago

      Most of the fear of sharks is due to media. Like the vast majority of sharks will not attack a human even when in close proximity. There are like 1 or 2 species of sharks that have any danger to humans: bull and tiger sharks if I remember correctly. And even those 2 will most likely not attack, it’s just that other species are no danger at all.