He can’t say because he knows if he does… boom… per capita.
WuWei
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Probability doesn’t matter.
WuWei
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You need to let @PurpnGold be the spokesman.
WuWei
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You have your data, choose.
What does? Your emotions?
WuWei
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Sure, if it makes you feel better.
tnt
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I can’t make an informed decision without knowing how many people are in each room.
If you can tell me that, I would be happy to decide.
tnt
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There are two jars.
Number one has one poison jelly bean in it.
Number two has 100 poison jelly beans in it.
You have to chose one jar to take one jelly bean from and eat it.
Which jar do you choose?
Can you make an informed decision based on this data?
If Jar number 1 has 1 jelly bean in it and jar number 2 has 1,000 jelly beans, which would you choose?
If jar number 1 has 1,000 jelly beans in it and jar number 2 has 100, does that change your decision?
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WuWei
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Amazing. Normal people can.
WuWei
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This isn’t a classroom and you don’t make the rules.
How about this:
Jar 1
Jar 2
Shot in the face
Can you choose a jar now?
tnt
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What on earth are you talking about?
tnt
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Not with the information you’ve given.
You can’t even choose yourself.
WuWei
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Like I said, you should let @PurpnGold be the spokesman.
tnt
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Share with the class, and show your work please.
Seems like you are asking for my emotional answer… not my data driven answer. Is that right?
Emotionally 1000 feels better because it is a lower number than 10000. It feels safer
But in the quote, you seemed to dismiss “safer” as an emotion. So I thought you were looking for a data driven answer. In which case your example is inconclusive.
You are kind of all over the place on this… all to avoid admitting that “per capita” or “rate” is a perfectly fine mathematical measurement to compare two different data sets of different sizes… i.e. comparing the crime between Texas and Wyoming.
