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Monday, November 06, 2017

Bullshit statistics

Such statistical comparisons are staggeringly asinine.

Nassim Taleb has written and talked a lot about this:
Imagine a horrifying scenario. A guy in Boston sees a bright light and hears a loud noise. A few minutes later, he reads the news that a million people have died in New York City.

What thought would cross his mind?

A) A million New Yorkers died because they choked on food.
B) A million New Yorkers died because they got slammed by a hurricane.
C) A million New Yorkers died because they were hit by a bullet.
D) A million New Yorkers died because they got wrecked in a car accident.
E) A million New Yorkers died because they got a heart attack.
F) A million New Yorkers died because their cancers took them out.
G) Those fucking Muslims detonated a nuke in America!

That is the danger of Muslims and their terrorism.

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