In the "game of thrones", war is not even the main cause of catastrophic mortality

Still from the movie "The game of thrones" / screen capture

Like all the heroes of the "game of thrones", the night is dark and full of horror.However , many of the fears of the series have been evaluated by scientists only at present, having conducted the first epidemiological study on death at Vasteras

For the characters in the study, the mortality rate of the average resident of the Seven Kingdoms over the seven seasons was 56%. So, for those who survived until the last part of the band, life in such a world is similar to that of playing in Russian roulette.

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But the worry even reigns for these heroes, which just appeared on the screen. The average life expectancy after the first appearance is less than 29 hours. And the biggest "lucky" could not stand for 11 seconds. The statistical probability of perishing in the first hour after its onset is 14%

All of these findings were made by scientists from the University of Macquarie in Australia. They reviewed the 67 series and took into account only 330 main characters, who played a role with the words and who were important to the plot. The researchers found that war was not even the single most important factor of high mortality in the seven kingdoms. Of the 186 deaths recorded in the series, 63% occurred during the attack, 25% because of the war and 5% as a result of judicial executions.

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