A coworker and I were looking up the odds of getting struck by lightening today, which are about 1 in a million but getting struck twice in your life is 1 in 7 million. I can’t seem to work this out
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You might be overthinking it.
The statistic comes from how many people are reported to be struck by lighting each year. It’s about 1 in a million people (it’s actually a little less than 1 in a million). But for simplicity’s sake, that means about 1 out of every million people in the US will be struck by lightning (this statistic is US specific from the CDC).
Then for the second statistic, it’s calculated the same way. How many people are reported to have suffered a second lightning strike each year. Apparently that number is about 1 in 7 million people. So 1 out of every 7 million people in the US will suffer 2 lightning strikes in a given year.
There’s nothing else really to work out.
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