American Jokes 75






Subject: Very statistical !!

A famous statistician would never travel by airplane, because he had studied air travel and estimated the probability of there being a bomb on any given flight was 1 in a million,and he was not prepared to accept these odds.

One day a colleague met him at a conference far from home. "How did you get here, by train?"

"No,I flew"

"What about your the possibiltiy of a bomb?"

"Well, I began thinking that if the odds of one bomb are 1:million, then the odds of TWO bombs are (1/1,000,000) x (1/1,000,000). This is a very, very small probability, which I can accept. So, now I bring my own bomb along!"




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解説&コメント


有名なある統計家は、、飛行機が落ちる(爆発する)確率を考えて、飛行機で旅行したことがなかった。

ある日、仲間が「ここに来るには電車で来たのかい?」と聞いた。

「いや、飛行機だ」

「君の確率計算はどうなったんだ?」

「こう考えたんだ。1つの爆発する確率は高い。でも、2つは低い...だから、(爆発物を)ひとつ持ってきたんだ」



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