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Straight number of deaths doesn't really matter in this case. Each red shirt is statistically less likely to die than the other shirt colors. The only reason the straight number of their deaths is higher is because there are so many more of them. Like, you wouldn't say that living in America is significantly more dangerous than living in Brazil, even though we have a higher number of deaths. It's only higher because there are more of us