I'm not surprised by the statement 'most people i meet don't understand this'. More than 50 percent of people I meet are less educated. Its statisticly evident.

I'm not surprised by the statement 'most people i meet don't understand this'. More than 50 percent of people I meet are less educated. Its statisticly evident. I might be over reaching but in fact what comes across as arrogance is just an example of statistical illiteracy. Most (>> 50 percent of) people are very good at detecting patterns. People are very bad at averaging numbers of events, because the detected patterns stand out so much and are implicitly and unconsciously exaggerated. An example. "in my city people drive like crazy" in fact means: this week i was a lot on the road and i saw 2 out of 500 cars that did not follow the rules and there was even one honking. It 'felt' like crazy traffic but in fact it was not.