Probability and "common sense"

"I read that there is about one chance in one million that someone will board an airplane carrying a bomb, and I started carrying a bomb with me on every flight I take. The way I figure it, the odds against two people having a bomb on the same plane are 1 in a trillion."

Friedman

Using Humor in the Introductory Statistics Course
Journal of Statistics Education Volume 10, Number 3 (2002)
 
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