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<addressing all comments> Lies, damn lies, and statistics. The NH is that a plane has 1/10 [M * flights] failure rate. The odds of 2 failures in 20M flights fa
by avip 8y ago
<addressing all comments>
Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
The NH is that a plane has 1/10 [M * flights] failure rate. The odds of 2 failures in 20M flights falling in same (random) stride of 150K flights are 150K/20M = 0.75%.
[E: fixed numbers]
[EE: yes, I admit this calculation is incorrect]