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>BTW, Paulos' book, Innumeracy, is great fun. He talks about people's fundamental misunderstandings of numbers and math.
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>One of my favorite examples from the book is the TV weatherman who says "We have 50% chance of rain Saturday and 50% chance Sunday, so we have a 100% change of chance of rain this weekend."
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>Tamar
Great! And I guess that 60% + 60% would add up to 120%, etc.
As you probably know, the real "sum" is 75% if the two events are independent; of course, in the case of weather, the events are not independent.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
