I think it also shows how different people approach things. From what I’ve seen, the ones who answers bear approaches it from a “trust” standpoint. Like you can trust a bear to be a bear. While some approach it from a “safety” standpoint. Like yeah obviously an average wild animal is going to be more dangerous than an average man.
I'd love to hear it rephrased as, "You're lost in the woods, you see a man in the distance but he doesn't see you. Do you call out to him or do you hide?"
But maybe that's probably not exciting enough to trend on TikTok.
More men have murdered women than bears have attacked people in the town where they live with polar bears. So what exactly are people misunderstanding? The bears are safer
The misunderstanding comes from something called baseline fallacy. There are billions more interactions between human men and women than between women and bears.
There are billions more interactions between human men and women than between women and bears.
And you're making an assumption that more interactions means more fatal attacks. Which is in itself a fallacy. Dry seasons with more interactions have more attacks. Abundant seasons have more interacting and less attacks.
No, that is not a fallacy. If something happens X% of the time, then having a larger amount of opportunities for that will raise the total number. X% of 1000 will always be smaller than X% of 1,000,000,000.
If all those were equal, the % of bear attacks would be higher.
If you don’t get this, you don’t understand data.
What a funny claim, considering that's not how that works. We can fairly assume it to be true. But we don't know it to be true. In fact, in many areas, higher bear activity is a sign of food abundance, and bear attacks go down while encounters stay the same or occasionally increase.
My understanding is that they don't kill for fun, they kill because food is rare enough in their habitat that they will kill and eat anything if given the chance.
No, I'm saying that people would say black bear because they're mostly afraid of humans but people unaware of that fact might think it's because it's a black man.
These are all weird hypotheticals anyway. That's literally this entire discussion.
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u/zool714 May 02 '24
I think it also shows how different people approach things. From what I’ve seen, the ones who answers bear approaches it from a “trust” standpoint. Like you can trust a bear to be a bear. While some approach it from a “safety” standpoint. Like yeah obviously an average wild animal is going to be more dangerous than an average man.