What is the most dangerous on-screen job in the movies?

Erwin M. Schmidt reached out to point me to a new study of the survival rates of on-screen geologists in movies titled “Geologists on the silver screen—the sequel”.Four geologists at the University of Gothenburg spent more than a decade keeping a list of every film they could find that featured a geologist. Across the 141 movies they tracked, the on-screen geologist died 34% of the time. Usually quite early, and often moments after explaining that the volcano is about to go off. Erwin asked me:How does the fate of geologists in movies compare with that of other jobs?This is exactly my kind of question as it’s core to the work I do, creating new movie records for Guinness World Records.So I turned to the data to see just how slated geologists are. Whether their luck had eroded, their prospects had hit rock bottom, and their odds of survival were, frankly, being taken for granite.I studied 43,983 movies to track the fate of 328,538 characters who shared 10,112 different job titles and…