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Originally Posted by tribble
I guess i am just not so scared anymore. Can happen to people who deal a bit with statistics  |
Ah, this explains a lot!
Statistics often lull people into a sense of misguided complacency. You may find a book called, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb interesting...
Statistics aren't anything to place your trust behind. The "highly improbable" happens more often than you'd think. People have died or lost everything they owned by relying on "statistically proved" methods. There's no such thing as a "sure thing" no matter how long it's been studied statistically. How well do statistics stand up against catastrophic mechanical failure? They don't...
It's just common sense folks. No matter how misguided you feel the rule to be, since it's flat out impossible to test everything, erring on the side of safety makes the most sense when lives are at stake. Do you
really want to be the one to discover the chink in the planes armor?