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Preach brother, Preach.
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So first off, I totally agree with the gist of your point, and the message of the video. I don't understand how people are saying they would prefer to run into a bear, it's nonsense to me. But, I will say that while discussing this whole topic, I was actually shocked to discover that there are actually very few bear attacks on people. Statistically speaking, bear attacks are pretty rare, making them technically not very dangerous. That being said, saying you'd prefer to encounter a bear makes no sense to me, and never will.
Edit: I listened to a statistician break down the numbers, and even accounting for the number of exposures, time of exposure, proximity, etc, bears attacks simply are not that common. Again, to be clear, I am NOT on team bear. I'm just saying that actually, bears aren't that dangerous
making them technically not very dangerous.
You need to control for violence per encounter. If humans have 1 violent attack per 1000 bear encounters, that's incredibly dangerous. The reason there are so few bear attacks is most people almost never encounter bears.
I actually listen to a statistician break it down in a bunch of ways. Even holding for proximity, exposure time, etc, bears are still not that dangerous. Again, I am not saying I am on team bear, very much the opposite. I'm just saying I was surprised to learn that actually a very, very small percentage of bear encounters end in an attack.
Well here's some math that says bears are 2000 times more dangerous than people after controlling by encounter: https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/s/JNck1X8QBH
Yeah, bear attacks are rare per encounter, but still way way way more dangerous.