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Security and the Statistics of Rare Events
guardian.co.uk — This is the same calculus that allows the fear of terrorism to take away our liberty: the statistically super-rare terrorist attacks present, on average, a much lower risk to our health, safety and person than, say, depriving us of our liquid medications, or of requiring us to leave our bags unlocked in flight.
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- Ripple, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1see also: http://www.innumeracy.com/
- Terr01, on 05/21/2008, -0/+3I really wish more people could step back and look at this kind of stuff rationally, especially over terrorism fears.
And for the more conservative, yes, that also goes for school shootings! We shouldn't be basing any gun policy on those emotional outliers, but on the number of people harmed and/or protected by gun usage and ownership day-by-day, month-by-month, year-by-year. - Calcularius, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1Logic > Emotion
- Ganpachi, on 05/21/2008, -1/+1In grade school I learned it as "the crocodile eats the bigger value". It should be written:
Logic < Emotion
- Ganpachi, on 05/21/2008, -1/+1In grade school I learned it as "the crocodile eats the bigger value". It should be written:
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