"Tap The Glass™" - They hate it when you do that...: Mathematical Illiteracy

Mathematical Illiteracy

This may be the stupidest example of risk assessment I've ever seen. It's a video clip from a recent Daily Show, about he dangers of the Large Hadron Collider. The segment starts off slow, but then there's an exchange with high school science teacher Walter L. Wagner, who insists the device has a 50-50 chance of destroying the world:

"If you have something that can happen, and something that won't necessarily happen, it's going to either happen or it's going to not happen, and so the best guess is 1 in 2."
"I'm not sure that's how probability works, Walter."

This is followed by clips of news shows taking the guy seriously.

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Why Tap The Glass?

Who maintains the internet?

"The internet has the potential to incite belligerence on a global scale, or even to empower demagogues and repressive regimes in ways that were historically impossible to achieve previously." wikipedia

Could you lose your internet? - (yes of relevant content )
Maybe you already have? - (yes well 90% of it ;-)

Due to mass media and marketing you don't even see half of it and never will - (You see what we want, not maybe what you want)

Why do you think you found this page "random chance"? Hardly

Not possible on the internet...

The 57 Million blogs maintained on the internet and that number doubles in size approximately every 230 days.

So, about 100,000 new weblogs are created each day...

The internet has the potential to incite belligerence on a global scale, or even to empower demagogues and repressive regimes in ways that were historically impossible to achieve previously. at Blogged

In the December 2006 survey we received responses from 105,244,649 Web sites with content...

While Al Gore has done a lot to promote his books & movies... he did not create and does not maintain the internet, these guys do ;-)

Why "Who Maintains the Internet Matters"... Here’s a little something to think about while the UN makes the case for greater international control of the internet turning a large class of people into social misfits, deviants and criminals and terrorists...

Who maintains YOUR internet? - Hoz

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