Tweet with the confidence of a US congressman using #math without actual knowledge of how math works at all.https://twitter.com/GarrettforVA/status/825573058035449857 …
Uh, yes. First, the statistic is about American risk, and there aren't 7 billion Americans.
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Second, Poisson processes are non uniform, so the rate, although an average, doesn't manifest that way.
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I only read the one tweet. Didn't know the context.
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Yeah, sadly he didn't thread. Original stat was risk of 1-in-3.5ish billion chance for an American to die from Islamic Terror
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