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Comparing a population of ~329M to a city of 1M seems a bit silly. Scale that and you get 121 deaths / million. That's unfair the other way as we're comparing conditions a large city rural areas of the US as well, but since we began with a silly comparison I'm not sure how we fix it without starting over.

In Austin TX, population ~1M, we had 74 vehicle related fatalities in 2018.




I mean... it's context to make it relevant to US readers. You didn't see me say there was a direct comparison to be made.

And you're kind of contradicting your claim that it's totally useless. 121/million vs. 1/million shows at what order of magnitude the comparison takes place, which is good enough to contextualize things, and your example of Austin further shows that the order of magnitude isn't far off.


It's context that makes no sense. How about this one?:

"In my neighborhood last year there were also no vehicle fatalities."

Is that in any way helpful?


No. We have no knowledge of your neighborhood, whereas US readers have a good-enough picture of the US.

It's also useless because a neighborhood is too small a unit of measurement to be useful, period. Unlike cities, states, or the entire country, the vast majority of neighborhoods have zero vehicle fatalities.


I'm glad we agree


It doesn't seem that way. If you're being snide... well, I guess that's that. Sad that you need to be so critical of one mildly helpful data point.




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