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Extreme sports: What are the risks?

Source: BBC

In this humorous essay, statistician David Spiegelhalter analyzes the numbers of injury and death of extreme sports participants.

This entry was posted in Taking Risks and tagged Culture & Society, Sports on January 1, 2017 by Anita Hacker.

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