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> And people really do win the lottery, but you kinda don't base your life decision process on that undisputable fact. Odds of winning the lottery: one out of
by krainboltgreene 4y ago
> And people really do win the lottery, but you kinda don't base your life decision process on that undisputable fact.
Odds of winning the lottery: one out of 302,575,350;
Odds of your child being kidnapped in a year: three out of 250
- t6jvcereio 4y agoPeople who say "you shouldn't be afraid" are the same people who get into stupid preventable accidents. I'm ok with that.
- 42e6e8c8-f7b8-4 4y agoHow many of those are child custody disputes?
- krainboltgreene 4y agoYou cannot kidnap someone and call it a "dispute".
- scotty79 4y agoYour numbers are wrong. https://www.creditdonkey.com/kidnapping-statistics.html https://www.creditdonkey.com/kidnapping-statistics.html 205 kids per year are abducted by strangers in US. More people per year win some kind of significant lottery.
- krainboltgreene 4y agoYour link starts off with a lie by statistics. Also, there are 80M kids, if 205 kids per year get kidnapped that's still better odds than winning the lottery.
- scotty79 4y agoDepends on what specific lottery you have in mind. And you can look at the raw incidence in various way to get various probabilities. And even 205 in 80M is small enough so that people are unable to reason about it. Which you clearly display.