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I think the article is abusing Bayes Rule. Keeping in line with the other examples in the article, why not: 1 out of 1 bombing attack resulted in death? Becaus
by rootlocus 11y ago
I think the article is abusing Bayes Rule.
Keeping in line with the other examples in the article, why not: 1 out of 1 bombing attack resulted in death? Because bombing attacks are not something you choose to do (as opposed to skydiving or riding a motorcycle). Also, the threat level is not uniform across the country. Also, there haven't been a million bombings so we're doing statistics with one sample. Also, we're also expecting the bombings to continue. There are a lot of misinterpretations and oversimplifications here.
I find it highly irrelevant, as a person working in a large town, frequently being in highly populated areas, in a country that's possibly a target for ISIS to compare myself with the average person living in a different country. It's almost like assuming that smokers and non-smokers have the same chance of dying from lung cancer, and then using the entire population of the world as reference to prove that smoking is actually pretty healthy.
- aidenn0 11y agoYou can choose to live in France perhaps? One could also add up all the deaths to terrorism in major western cities since ISIS was formed (or since 9/11, or whatever point you choose as representative of the present for expected terrorist attacks) and calculate the risk there.