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iugtmkbdfil834 • today at 3:45 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

:D Friend, allow me to make light of this conversation for the benefit of all.

I am sure that you are familiar with an expression of being hit by lightning indicating some relatively low chance of an event[1]. Now, imagine walking around with a rather conductive flagpole everywhere you go, do you think you would up or lower your odds ( edit: for a lightning to strike ).

Maybe it is true that I don't discuss statistics the way you do. After all, I merely apply them to real life.

But then again, I don't walk around during thunderstorm waiting to be struck.

In other words, you are wrong. Individual actions affecting chance are very much relevant to discussion about statistics.

[1]https://www.cdc.gov/lightning/data-research/index.html