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Because they are in conflict. "Cancer is like a random process" is saying that it can happen equally to anyone. "Most sailors eventually got melanoma from bei
by beaner 13y ago
Because they are in conflict. "Cancer is like a random process" is saying that it can happen equally to anyone. "Most sailors eventually got melanoma from being out all the time" is showing that it does not happen equally to anyone. Your example isn't accurate.
- refurb 13y agoI don't think saying cancer is random means anyone can get it. It could also mean when you are exposed to a carcinogen, the impact is random. You could smoke cigarette's and never get lung cancer. You could spend your whole life in the sun and never get skin cancer.
- mason240 13y agoI think what he is trying to say is that the baseline for getting cancer is random, and there really isn't much you can do you reduce the chances of it happening. However, you can increase the chances of happening through things like excessive sun exposure.
- watwut 13y agoRandom means unpredictable/non deterministic, it does not have to be equally distributed. Normal dice throws 6 with the same probability as 1. Biased dice that throws 6 twice as much as 1 is still random, but it does not throw numbers equally Smokers have significantly higher chance to get cancer then non-smokers, but they are not guaranteed to have it. Both smokers and non-smokers can get lung cancer and it is biased random whether you will get it or not.