Road design, safety and Vision Zero

[dtkvictim]

While the number of people who blindly step out in to traffic is certainly a very small percentage of pedestrians, anecdotally it's way higher than I thought it would be.

Never trust anecdotes. Cognitive biases will bite you in the ass. Such as availability bias. If you recently saw one of the rare pedestrians blindly walking out in to the traffic, that's what you'll fixate on and think it happens more often than it really does. Or if somebody told you about it happening to them.

In terms of proportions, you are correct. But what I wrote is not at all what I meant to convey. I should have said "the total number is way higher than I thought it would be", I was not meaning to discuss proportions in the second half of my sentence even though I clearly wrote it that way. My personal sample can only be less than or equal to the total number of people blindly walking out in to traffic, and my personal sample was way larger than I expected, was the point I was trying to make.