Trendacosta's Mathematician Boldly Claims That Redshirts Don't Actually Die the Most on Star Trek

http://gazomg.deviantart.com/art/Star-Trek-Redshirt-6-The-Walking-Dead-483111105

io9 recaps a talk given by mathematician James Grime. He addressed the long running Star Trek joke that the first people to die are the Red Shirts. Using resources that detail the ins and outs of Star Trek, he determined that:

This makes for a good example of absolute vs. relative risk. Sure, more red shirts may die, absolutely, but proportionally? They only make up 10% of the deaths. Also, I think this is a funny example of using archival data in order to understand an actual on-going Star Trek joke.

For more math/Star Trek links, go to space.com's treatment of the speech.