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

Jim Thompson wrote:
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:49:47 -0400, Fred Bloggs <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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...

With such statistical "reasoning" lottery tickets are sold ;-)

To be fair -- in the case of airline crashes or other incidents the
experiment may not be totally independent of one another (as in a
lottery).

robert
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