Author Topic: Are We Scaring Ourselves To Death?  (Read 2274 times)


You might have seen the show, I'm basing my Science Fair Project off of it.

Take the Quiz

The media is known for scaring it's viewers, would it get business if it didn't keep people watching? As a result though, people fear things that shouldn't be feared nearly as much as they are. Try this, which kills more people a year, drowning in toilets, or exploding BIC lighters? If you said BIC lighters, you too are being misinformed to a degree. Now, this isn't supposed to be me telling all of you that you're all wrong, I've withheld the correct answers for the time being, but more as just to observe the general public mind. When I'm finished my project of course, I will release the correct answers.

So, if you could, please take the short quiz. It's all multiple choice and there are only six questions, not that bad.

The answers were kind of obvious after reading your post.



For some of them I answered the ones that I thought wouldn't be obvious. But I definitely knew that driving was way more dangerous than flying.
how do you die from touching hot tap water ..?
agree with both

Whoever said that more people die from flying is an idiot.

Whoever said that more people die from flying is an idiot.
Or simply misguided.

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Which kills more people a year, suffocation from plastic bags or contact with hot tap water?

Since when does hot water kill? And you have to be a complete idiot to put a plastic bag over your head.

Since when does hot water kill? And you have to be a complete idiot to put a plastic bag over your head.
Shock.


Like, electrocution?
Not quite sure, but 51 people a year die from it.

shock as in trauma, not electricity .. who the forget touches hot water and starts screaming OH GOD THE WATER WAS SO HOT OH GOD and then passes out and dies? personally that sounds more like natural selection lol

Chose the hot tap water choice for fun :cookieMonster:

Gonna punch anyone who was serious when they chose flying instead of driving.

I just went with what was probably the common conception of deadly, and I went with the opposite of that.

People are scared of cancer so I didn't pick that.

Or simply misguided.
no, they are an idiot, anyone who doesn't know that flying is less dangerous than driving is absolutely handicapped