codedarchaeologist
everybody ends up where the river meets the sea
- Jan 21, 2023
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The statistic that jumping is successful 90% of the time when falling six floors is pretty commonly cited (the Suicide Faq says this, for example). But does anyone know the more general statistics on this? What are the rates for different heights? How reliable is, for example, 4 floors, or 5, or 10? I imagine this graphs out to be an asymptote - the reliability increases rapidly at first, and then the increase slows down and never reaches 100%. I'd be really interested in seeing the statistics, if they exist (and I imagine they must exist for the six floors-statistic to be real).