dying when skydiving

The chances of fatalities are:

For multiple jumps, each with probability 1 in 159000, on average there will be jumps until fatalities.

On average, with up to 50 repeated jumps, there will be 0.0 skydivers with fatalities.

Probability

  • 0.000006
  • As a percentage

  • 0.0006%
  • As a rounded-off proportion

  • 0 in 1
  • As approximate fair betting odds

  • 160000 : 1
  • Representative example

    For fatalities

  • 100 skydivers x 50 jumps max
  • Observed fatalities: 0
  • For skydivers (columns)
  • Summary for skydivers: {'min': 0, 'max': 0, 'mean': 0.0, 'median': 0}
  • Counts: How many fatalities for each of the skydivers? [Click to show]
  • [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
  • Distribution: How many skydivers for each different number of fatalities? [Click to show]
  • 100 with 0 fatalities;
    For jumps (rows)
  • Summary for jumps: {'min': 0, 'max': 0, 'mean': 0.0, 'median': 0}
  • Counts: How many fatalities for each of the jumps? [Click to show]
  • [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
  • Distribution: How many jumps for each different number of fatalities? [Click to show]
  • 50 with 0 fatalities;

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