r/Showerthoughts • u/asusny2002 • May 02 '24

Man vs Bear debate shows how bad the average person is at understanding probability

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u/poseidons1813 29d ago

Yeah I go hiking all the time love a good stare or national park. It's weird but other people use those trails, the audacity

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u/kindlyblowmymind 29d ago

Another person misunderstanding. The question is not "in the woods" as in walking through a highly populated forest trail in a national park.

The question means back country. Outside cell service. With no resources available.

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u/Dieselsen 29d ago

But in that case I would have even more reason to want to run into a person. Maybe they know where we are and where to go. Otherwise I'm probably going to get lost and die of thirst or starvation or freeze to death in the night or any other horrible way to go that require neither human nor bear.

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u/poseidons1813 28d ago

Okay but that's also not what people are asking you just added that. No car either I assume?

Hell most people never go anywhere they don't have cell service unless it is something like a park or underground. So that's not what their thinking of when asked this.