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[–] 61 points 2 days ago (2 children)

A woman was afraid of flying on a plane. She expressed her fears to her friend; “What if someone brings a bomb on the plane?”
“Lady, the chances of that happening are a million to one.”
“What about the chances of TWO people each bringing a bomb onto the plane?”
“…That’d be even more ridiculous. That would be something like a quadrillion to one.”

So now, that woman always feels perfectly safe flying on a plane - as long as she always brings a bomb with her.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    You see, I think the conditional probability of someone bringing a bomb onto a plane given someone else brought one is a lot higher than the probability that someone brought one on the plane in the first place; people are likely to work together on that kind of 'project' and may want some degree of redundancy.

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