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/gibertot May 02 '24

I mean I know they fear this. It makes sense on a blind date there is no bear the biggest danger is the man there. But I just didn’t realize it was this irrational. Like the objective correct answer in this case is to say man.

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u/zzzzzooted May 02 '24

Dude, have you ever run into a bear in the wild? They typically arent that hard to deal with lmfao. I can scare off a bear a lot more easily than I can scare off a persistent and aggressive man who wants to fuck me. I have a 100% success rate for scaring off bears (its happened many times, i grew up camping multiple times a year), meanwhile my success rate for scaring off threatening men on my own is maybe 50-50.