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by dingo_bat 3253 days ago
How "rare" indeed! Imagine if car accident rate was 10%. Every 10 days you'd total your car.
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No, that's not what it means.

If it meant that, all drug users would become addicted every 10 days.

It actually means 1 in 10 drivers would total their car, over a lifetime.