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xkcd: Worst-Case Scenario

Category: HumorScience in the Media
Posted on: June 6, 2010 2:03 PM, by Joseph j7uy5

XKCD usually is pretty good; this one, however, is a brillant commentary on science journalism. People forget that once an event has happened, the probability of that event is exactly 1, and the probability of all other outcomes is exactly zero. (Click image for full-size view.)

Worst-Case Scenario

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I just dug out my old (first issue) copies of Xenozoic Tales. Which I bought, and read, as a young psychiatry resident in Ann Arbor. Funny how xkcd and Mark Schultz have much the same theme.

Posted by: stumpy | June 8, 2010 11:25 PM

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