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Double 0.5% is 1%. Where'd you get 50%?
by christophilus 6y ago
Double 0.5% is 1%. Where'd you get 50%?
- csnover 6y agoI believe the parent was making a rhetorical point: if your base fatality rate were 50%, then doubling it would mean you’d be guaranteed to die. Therefore, saying something “only” doubles your risk of death can understate the impact of what that doubling means in practice.
- petertodd 6y agoIt's pretty simple: at my age randomly dying isn't something I'm concerned about at all. So doubling those chances is still not something I'm concerned about. It's certainly not an existential threat to society.