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artificialavocado t1_j8q5w1w wrote

Reply to comment by gregv64 in Moving to mountain region of PA-Tell me how it is? by gregv64

Let me be clear I’m not trying to downplay it at all but incidences like that the availability heuristic makes it feel more likely than it really is. Sort of like plane crashes. The chances of any particular school having an incident is astronomically low.

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gregv64 OP t1_j8qem73 wrote

Yes, on a statistic level i agree. America also has 11x the population of canada so the chance of literally any event (robbery, murder, car accident) is 11x higher.

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