Re: OT: American gun nuts score a classic own goal


"Paul Hovnanian P.E." wrote:

Fred Bloggs wrote:

[snip]

And that is why you want to fly on an airline with a recent crash since
the chances of two such crashes in rapid succession are near zero, and
an airline with a long time since its last crash is due for one anytime...

Improper use of statistics. That's how you keep from flying on an
airplane with a terrorist bomb. You carry your own bomb, because the
probability of there being two bombs on one plane is vanishingly small.


Unless there are 'two' idiots aboard the plane.

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