A famous statistician would never travel by airplane, cos he had studied air travel & estimated the probability of there being a bomb on any given flight was 1 in a million, and he was not prepared to accept the odds.
1 day a colleague met him at a conference far from home.
"How did you get here, by train?"
"No, I flew"
"What about your theory of the possibility of a bomb?"
"Well, I began thinking that if the odds of one bomb are 1:Million, then the odds of TWO bombs are
(1/1000000) x (1/1000000).
This is a very, very small probability, which I can accept.
So, Now I bring My Own Bomb Along!"
1 day a colleague met him at a conference far from home.
"How did you get here, by train?"
"No, I flew"
"What about your theory of the possibility of a bomb?"
"Well, I began thinking that if the odds of one bomb are 1:Million, then the odds of TWO bombs are
(1/1000000) x (1/1000000).
This is a very, very small probability, which I can accept.
So, Now I bring My Own Bomb Along!"
