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In my experience the overlooked risk is burns. People think low voltage dc is safe(er) (no electrocution) because of high skin resistance, and are amazed when there are a shower of sparks from a car battery (when something goes wrong like a tool falling across the terminals). In high school I did welding with capacitors that looked like pyrotechnics using a butter knife fom the cafeteria.

On a side note, I think I read women have lower skin resistance than men on average.. Something we were going to do a little design of expirment for in highschool but never got around to completing it because shocking people and playing with electricity was more fun.

Ohh.. According to this men have lower resistance. http://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=6793