>In this region of the world, and probably in others, too, average people have trouble with the very concept of probabilities, too.
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>Reminds me of a statement I heard somewhere, which goes something like this: "70% of the world's population can't handle percentages; the other half doesn't care."
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If you haven't read it yet, get your hands on a book called "Innumeracy" by John Allen Paulos. Also fun is his book "A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper".
Tamar
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