How do we calculate the odds of for example being struck by lightning?

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The odds for that happening are 1 in a million. How did we measure this?

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When chances of getting hit by lightning is one in a million that means that 8000 people around the world gets hit by lightning, about 350 people in the US. This is a fairly simple calculation. Just look up in records to find out how many gets hit by lightning and then divide by the number of people those records cover.

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