The damage done by probability blindness - American Thinker

The damage done by probability blindness - American Thinker:

• As Bishop Joseph Butler said in 1736, "probability is the very guide of life."

"The coronavirus has generated more blind fear than perhaps any other event in recorded history.  

That fear is blind because it ignores easily calculated probabilities.

The reported coronavirus deaths in the U.S. now stand at six hundred thousand.  

The population of the U.S. is approximately 330 million.  

When you divide deaths by the population, the number is less than two-tenths of one percent.  

As catastrophes go, that is a relatively small number.

There is a wide disparity of coronavirus deaths among age groups.  

That fact has been deliberately ignored by the authorities and the media...Read all.