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Is it not though? It's not a guarantee but definitely an indication.
by stefankorun 2y ago
Is it not though? It's not a guarantee but definitely an indication.
- mooktakim 2y agoNot really. Only thing you can guarantee is things change.
- NeoTar 2y agoLet’s just throw away all past experience then? It’s a mistake to assume that there will be 100% correlation between the past and future, but it’s probably as bad of a mistake to assume 0% correlation. (Obviously dependant on exactly what you are looking at).
- chiefalchemist 2y ago0% maybe not. But it's the outliers and the didn't see that comings that kill ya. Sometimes literally. So while the odds at the extremes are low, they cannot be ignored. No one can predict the future. But those that assume tomorrow will be like today are - per history - going to be fatally wrong eventually.
- mooktakim 2y agoSo the choices are 100% or 0%?
- NeoTar 2y agoThat’s my point – they are not. Your previous comment implied to me a belief that any attempt to draw inference from past events was doomed to failure! Each circumstance is different. Sometimes the past is a good guide to the future – even for the notoriously unpredictable British weather apparently you can get a seventy percent success rate (by some measure) by predicting that tomorrows weather will be the same as todays. Sometimes it is not - the history of an ideal roulette wheel should offer no insights into future numbers. The key is of course to act in accordance with the probability, risk and reward.
- mooktakim 2y agoI did not speak with certainty. Everything I said is guess and opinion.