| Re: On this day: 28 Feb 2001, Great Heck/Selby - split posts about superstitions Posted by TonyK at 16:18, 16th March 2021 |     |
You are correct, there are more odd numbered houses than even numbers, and therefore more fatal fires therein.
I doubt however that the nuttier end of the on line mother and baby groups could understand that.
I doubt however that the nuttier end of the on line mother and baby groups could understand that.
If they are all Shakespeare buffs, they might think otherwise:
They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.
But that's the Windsor wives, not the online nuttier wives.
| Re: On this day: 28 Feb 2001, Great Heck/Selby - split posts about superstitions Posted by broadgage at 15:39, 16th March 2021 | |
You are correct, there are more odd numbered houses than even numbers, and therefore more fatal fires therein.
I doubt however that the nuttier end of the on line mother and baby groups could understand that.
| Re: On this day: 28 Feb 2001, Great Heck/Selby - split posts about superstitions Posted by grahame at 13:20, 16th March 2021 | |
Did you know that fatal house fires are more likely in odd numbered houses than even numbered houses ?
According to totally unreliable sources, there are on average somewhere around between 65 and 70 houses in the average street. If a street has an odd number of houses, there is one more odd than even houses there, but if a street has an even number they match. A little bit of mental arithmetic suggests that 50.4% of houses have odd numbers and 49.6% have even numbers. And on that basis, the number of fatal fires reported overall in odd number houses will be higher than the number of fatal fires reported overall in even number houses.
Should odd numbers be banned ?
Not from the evidence presented. It's the number of fires per million in the pool in which you are measuring and the two pools you are comparing are of different size.
| Re: On this day: 28 Feb 2001, Great Heck/Selby - split posts about superstitions Posted by IndustryInsider at 13:11, 16th March 2021 | |
How long before some group or other suggests "not travelling by train on February 28 due to the risks"
Probably quite some time.
| On this day: 28 Feb 2001, Great Heck/Selby - split posts about superstitions Posted by broadgage at 12:55, 16th March 2021 | |
There is of course nothing about February 28 that renders train travel less safe than on other dates, it is simply tragic chance.
How long before some group or other suggests "not travelling by train on February 28 due to the risks"
There has been a regretable increase in superstition in recent years. Did you know that fatal house fires are more likely in odd numbered houses than even numbered houses ? Should odd numbers be banned ?
