A Statistician Refuses To Fly After Reading The Alarmingly High Probability That There Will Be A Bomb On Any Given Plane.

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A statistician refuses to fly after reading the alarmingly high probability
that there will be a bomb on any given plane. Later he finds that the
probability of there being two bombs on any given flight is very low. Now
whenever he flies, he always carries one bomb with him.
-- "I Think Therefore I Laugh", by John Allen Paulos

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