Torts notes

Reading and Math Skills

1 Which is (likely) the more serious physical injury?

	MAIS 1
	MAIS 3

2 When the four listed methods of suicide are considered together, what were the top five leading causes of injury deaths in Americans aged 15-24 in 2018 (from highest to lowest)?

Unintentional drowning

Motor vehicle crashes

Suicide

Unintentional poisoning

Homicide by firearm

(As an aside: What might explain the high number of "unintentional poisoning"?)

3 According to NHTSA, what was the total economic and societal costs of motor vehicle crashes in 2010 (expressed in billions of 2010 dollars)?

4 What is this same value expressed in billions of of 2019 dollars?

5 Assuming that statistics for deaths from causes other than COVID-19 have not changed significantly since 2018, was COVID-19 one of the 10 leading causes of death among people 25-34 in 2020?

	Yes
	No

6 Assuming that statistics for deaths from causes other than COVID-19 have not changed significantly since 2018, was COVID-19 one of the 10 leading causes of death among people 15-24 in 2020?

	Yes
	No