I think the question should have been, what is the probability of a bomb going off if there are 2 bombs on the plane.
Didn't he ask the wrong question?
7 days ago by pelespirit to c/whitepeopletwitter
ArmoredThirteen 8 points 7 days ago
I doubt the TSA has that high a success rate
cheers_queers 10 points 7 days ago
it's less than 5 percent iirc
kender242 14 points 7 days ago
Required reading for a course I took https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_in_Numbers
Basically, it's difficult to make numbers tell the truth, but somehow people really trust things that are quantifiable, and it's totally unwarranted.
kender242 9 points 7 days ago
Totally agree!
But also ... Lies, damned lies, and statistics
OpenStars 6 points 7 days ago
Absolutely, or rather I should say relatively.
Like "an electron can be in multiple places at once" is also a lie, except that "an electron may have multiple solutions to its waveform equation" is a better formulation of the truth.
It is not so much numbers - or at least not them only that lie - so much as that the human brain is desperate to make use of literally anything and everything it can to achieve its objectives. And numbers happen to be powerful so it loves to grab ahold of those, but it would just as readily grab ahold of a bowl of petunias as we all plummet collectively down through the gravity well of time, decrying "not again".
We would all do well to be more skeptical of things than we are now. And not only about numbers.
MonkderVierte 6 points 7 days ago
I think No Game No Life explained probability theory exceedingly well.
TargaryenTKE 2 points 6 days ago
And now I gotta rewatch the one and only season we'll get for like the 8th time to remind me of what we could've had
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Taking a bomb with you when you fly reduces your chances of blowing up on a plane because there's probably at least a 20% chance TSA will stop you before you get on the plane.
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