Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderThe Micromort concept is explored thoroughly and very enjoyable in the book 'The Normal Chronicles' by David Blastland and Michael Spiegelhalter. It's well worth checking out. Blastland was one of the creators of the excellent 'More or Less' on the BBC that looks at how numbers are used and mostly abused by the media, politicians and everyone else. Spiegelhalter is a prof of stats. The book addresses a number of the criticisms that have been leveled at the concept in…
I hate the units which you cannot easily add: 10 micromorts + 10 micromorts = 19,999999 micromorts 500 milimorts + 500 milimorts = 750 milimorts Playing russian roulette using a sixshooter loaded with 3 rounds is 50% chance of death. It's 75% if you do another try. "Adding" another try does not translate to "adding" the metric. It just adds confusion.
Funny, but what's the point? In the UK you get 24 per day for all causes, and 0.8 per day for non natural causes. First off, the specific number you get depends on how your slicing the data. A 30 yo person doesn't have the same chance of dying from "all causes" as an 80 yo one. Second, comparing sports vs all causes is useless because all causes it's not really actionable. I could compare amongst sports to pick the…
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The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 376
- Total comments
- 178
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-11-28 | A measure of mortality risk: the micromort | RiderOfGiraffes | 2 | 0 |
| 2012-03-14 | Micromort | revorad | 5 | 1 |
| 2013-07-22 | Micromort: A unit used to measure riskiness of day-to-day activities | mhb | 1 | 0 |
| 2013-08-23 | MicromortFirst breakout · Best thread | georgecmu | 173 | 99 |
| 2013-12-16 | Micromort | mike_esspe | 1 | 0 |
| 2015-08-07 | Micromort | JoshTriplett | 1 | 0 |
| 2015-11-15 | Micromort – the Unit of (Risk of) Death | neilellis | 2 | 0 |
| 2015-11-28 | Micromort | refrigerator | 2 | 0 |
| 2016-08-04 | Micromort: unit of mortality | ashtuchkin | 1 | 0 |
| 2017-08-29 | Micromort | tonteldoos | 5 | 0 |
| 2019-04-23 | Micromort – The Measure of Mortality Risk | hoov | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-01-24 | Micromort | PierredeFermat | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-04-08 | Micromort | sytelus | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-06-19 | MicromortLatest 20+ point return | benbreen | 152 | 72 |
| 2021-11-14 | Micromort | n3t | 1 | 0 |
| 2023-06-27 | Micromort | bluecoconut | 5 | 1 |
| 2023-06-28 | Micromort: Unit of risk defined as a one-in-a-million chance of death | dpcx | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-08-26 | Micromort | thunderbong | 15 | 3 |
| 2023-09-12 | Micromort | adwi | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-11-24 | Micromort | supermdguy | 1 | 2 |