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As a statistician once told me: "the odds of running into a grizzly bear are miniscule, but if you're the one who runs into it, they're 100%." So it's important
by laughfactory 10y ago
As a statistician once told me: "the odds of running into a grizzly bear are miniscule, but if you're the one who runs into it, they're 100%." So it's important to remember that when evaluating odds and probability. Many things are unlikely to occur, but they do occur to some. I realize this is only tangential to your question, but wanted to put it out there.
- k__ 10y agoFair enough. But wouldn't it make sense to group people who are risk aware together? Like 90% of a population will live risk free lifes, and only 10% have high risk. I mean, depending how risk friendly 10% of the population are, they could screw up the result and then it seems all people of that population are crazier than most of them really are...