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My favorite example of how to lie with statistics:
“Of the 117 billion people who have ever lived, 8 billion of them are still alive. Therefore, the chance of dying is not 100% but rather only 93%.”
“The place most people die is in their bed. Beds are thus the most dangerous place in the world”
I have never died, therefore all previous data points show I can’t die. Good science!
That is actually precisely what the “paradox of the cock” is saying.
A rooster crows every morning. They observe this and conclude that statistically, they can’t die. Which is bullshit, ofc.
When you tell someone to pound sand and they go on to fuck the entire world ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
