Probability and "common sense"

Discussion in 'Psychology' started by harrytrader, Mar 6, 2003.

  1. "I read that there is about one chance in one million that someone will board an airplane carrying a bomb, and I started carrying a bomb with me on every flight I take. The way I figure it, the odds against two people having a bomb on the same plane are 1 in a trillion."

    Friedman

    Using Humor in the Introductory Statistics Course
    Journal of Statistics Education Volume 10, Number 3 (2002)