Talk:Borel's Law
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Interestingly, I remember something that said that some statisticians tend to take "1 in 100" as "beyond chance". Of course, it's very context dependent what your rule of thumb will be. So if you go and drive to work, you assume the chance of you crashing and dying is so low (1 in 50,000 or less?) as to be "beyond chance" and you get in the car and go. On the other hand, if you make a nuclear power station that has a 1 in 50,000 chance of blowing up and killing a load of people, you don't take that. Now, that's just focusing on risk avoidance, but you can see the context dependence.
postate 17:47, 16 May 2010 (UTC)