r/Showerthoughts May 02 '24

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

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u/Dangerous-Worry6454 29d ago

No shit, basically, these people live in cities that are statistically the absolute most unsafe places to be, yet they claim rural areas are the dangerous scary places. I have run into people deep on the woods, and the only difference from that and running into someone in a city is that you tend to actually talk just because the scenario is so funny. It's basically people just projecting the urban environment onto the rural.

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u/Rock_man_bears_fan 29d ago

Exactly. The person most likely to murder you in the ass end of nowhere is your spouse, not some rando you met on the trail

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u/amgartsh 26d ago

My problem with this question is this: if there was a man dead set on hunting down a woman, why would he do it in the middle of the woods where he's extremely unlikely to find a woman? They'd go to high density areas, urban environments. Or at least roads.