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Remember that 3% of Georgia is not 3% of the entire U.S.
by karaterobot 2y ago
Remember that 3% of Georgia is not 3% of the entire U.S.
- ben_w 2y agoAnd? 3% of the UK isn't 3% of Europe. Georgia is big enough that percentages is the right measure. If this had been Rhode Island or Hawaii then law of large numbers no longer applies and correlation of failures means that seeing even 30% affected isn't crazy. But Georgia is 11 million people, doesn't get that excuse, 3% is still a lot.
- karaterobot 2y agoYou said that the 1987 outage didn't reach 3% of the UK. The 2025 outage in Georgia didn't reach 3% of the US, either. You compared a state with a major power outage to multiple countries, as though it were a meaningful comparison—I don't see how it is.
- ben_w 2y agoUS states may not be sovreign like EU states are, but they're similar in a lot of other ways.
- WrongAssumption 2y agoCool. 100% of Italy lost power in 2003. That's over 50 million people.
- ben_w 2y agoResulting in a major investigation, whose conclusions were acted upon to try to ensure it didn't happen again. If you sit on your backside and say "eh, not too bad, these things happen", then you normalise failure, and things keep getting worse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance
- WrongAssumption 2y agoAgreed. On that note London is also big enough that percentages are the right measure. Here is 7% of London being knocked out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_London_blackout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_London_blackout