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Returns a tibble of human-readable descriptions and authoritative help URLs for all activities in common_risks(). Useful for quiz tooltips, API responses, and dashboards.

Usage

activity_descriptions()

Value

A tibble with columns:

  • activity: Activity name (matches common_risks() exactly)

  • description: 1-2 sentence explanation of the risk

  • help_url: Authoritative source URL (Wikipedia or similar)

Examples

activity_descriptions()
#> # A tibble: 119 × 3
#>    activity                                description                  help_url
#>    <chr>                                   <chr>                        <chr>   
#>  1 Mt. Everest ascent                      At 8,849m, extreme altitude… https:/…
#>  2 Himalayan mountaineering                Expeditions to 8,000m+ peak… https:/…
#>  3 COVID-19 infection (unvaccinated)       Unvaccinated COVID-19 infec… https:/…
#>  4 Spanish flu infection                   The 1918 influenza pandemic… https:/…
#>  5 Matterhorn ascent                       One of the Alps' deadliest … https:/…
#>  6 Living in US during COVID-19 (Jul 2020) Peak US COVID-19 mortality … https:/…
#>  7 Living (one day, age 90)                Daily background mortality … https:/…
#>  8 Base jumping (per jump)                 Parachuting from fixed obje… https:/…
#>  9 First day of life (newborn)             The first 24 hours carry el… https:/…
#> 10 COVID-19 unvaccinated (age 80+)         Unvaccinated elderly face t… https:/…
#> # ℹ 109 more rows
activity_descriptions() |> dplyr::filter(grepl("Skydiving", activity))
#> # A tibble: 3 × 3
#>   activity             description                                      help_url
#>   <chr>                <chr>                                            <chr>   
#> 1 Skydiving (per jump) Risk from parachute malfunction, mid-air collis… https:/…
#> 2 Skydiving (US)       US skydiving fatality rate based on USPA incide… https:/…
#> 3 Skydiving (UK)       UK skydiving fatality rate based on British Par… https:/…