Our mass media is a hysteria machine. In Chapter 5 of Numbers Rule Your World, I looked at the news coverage in the aftermath of jet crashes. What's happening in the wake of the cruise ship grounding in Italy is following the same pattern.
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Here is an article talking about "10 other horrifying cruise ship disasters". (link) This is just like tables of the 10 worst airline disasters in history. The #1 on the list is unsurprisingly the Titanic. That's really a laughable comparison: 1500 dead and 700 survivors versus 4000 survivors and 10-30 dead. Unless the point of this article is to tell us how much safer travel is today compared to a century ago.
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Here's an industry insider advising readers "how to pick a cruise line for safety". (link) Given the scarcity of accidents (see previous post), it would seem pointless to spend a lot of time choosing between cruise lines specifically for safety.
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