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Re:Facebook’s Safety Check is a stress-inducing flip of soci... by mmirate on Thursday June 15, 2017 @03:54PM (#14563839)
But this points to not a specific misunderstanding of accidental death, but to a general inability to comprehend/apply statistics, which includes things such as cost/benefit analyses.
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Re:Facebook’s Safety Check is a stress-inducing flip of soci... by mikeash on Thursday June 15, 2017 @05:47PM (#14564673)
It's fascinating to see nerds weird out over people's inability to comprehend basic probability and statistics (which the human brain is innately bad at) while displaying a complete inability to understand other people (which the human brain is innately great at). And yes, I do it too sometimes.

Stop arguing about why the average person, or even the average powerful person, ought to have an excellent understanding of these things, and start exploring why they don't. You'll come out of it more informed.

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