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To: cosmicforce who wrote (212736)12/27/2012 2:27:04 PM
From: koan  Respond to of 541763
 
<<One can anticipate what kind of interactions one gets when alcohol and bikers get together at a watering hole. There are places in my own town that I just don't go - day or night - not that I live in a bad area. But when there is trouble, it occurs near these skeezy locales. One can change their odds hugely by avoiding such places. It is like you are not even in the dice rolls. People that go there are hoping not to roll snake eyes.>.

I survived growing up in Richmond California because of that philosophy. I was always watching for trouble and knew where I could and could not go. Libraries and Jewish neighborhoods are generally safe-lol.



To: cosmicforce who wrote (212736)12/27/2012 5:35:45 PM
From: T L Comiskey  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541763
 
NPR....rethinking the possibilities
Sandy Hook

"Since the shooting she's been focused on this one rule of statistics she learned in college, which she calls the "large number certainty theorem."

"If the base is big enough," she explains, "even though the probability is small, things will happen with certainty."

npr.org


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