Frank Yan of Sacramento on Is There an Increase Chance of Death?

After Frank’s workout, Frank was listening to a program on a Sacramento radio station from his comfort of his home in Sacramento, Ca. The speaker mentioned that there was a highly increased chance of death if you are overweight, diabetic, or smoke. Wow!! Frank thought the chance of death was 100%. What is the chance of death with any of the above said? It can’t be MORE than 100%, can it?

Someone must not proofread their material. Frank Yan believes that what they meant was that the chance for an earlier than normal death was increased by any or all of the aforementioned factors. It’s a small distinction that Frank knows, BUT, in the world we live in today where people are supposed to be getting smarter and smarter…… Right?


It just shows you that you cannot rely on spell check every time to catch everything. Everybody seems to want to rely in this world of technology and applications for everything. What is next? We have cashiers that cannot make change and these high school graduates that can do calculus and physics, but can’t balance their own checkbook or credit card statements. We have people that can’t read a map, what happens when your GPS fails? Do you immediately go buy another or drive around Sacramento until you stumble across your destination?


We see major newspapers that contain more errors than Frank was ever allowed in a high school report. Nobody seems to fact check, but then this isn’t a real major newspaper. Frank has seen roads with directional signs that seem to be intended to confuse out of area travelers. Try being from out of the area and driving around in another country without getting in a wreck. People from out of the area need road signs placed well before a turn in one standard location (so they can be found), not on wires across the road, then on a pole on the right corner, then on a post on the left side of the street, etc.


Frank Yan wants to know who really thinks there is an increased chance of death. Frank also likes to know why these types of errors that are occurring. Is it that we are ALL way too busy to verify things? Perhaps there is just too much knowledge that we think we know? Why don’t we just concentrate on teaching students things in school that everybody will use in their normal everday lives? Not everybody, in reality only a small percentage, will EVER need calculus and physics, but everyone should be able to spot errors such as, spelling errors, road signs that make no sense, common, increased chance of death, etc. Everyone should be able to balance a checking or credit card account and
count money without a calculator.