"The following joke illustrates this phenomenon: a mathematician is afraid of flying due to the small risk of a terrorist attack. So, on every flight he takes a bomb with him in his hand luggage. ‘The probability of having a bomb on the plane is very low,’ he reasons, ‘and **the probability of having two bombs on the same plane is virtually zero!’" --- **Tags** — [[quotes]], [[statistics]], [[fooled-by-randomness]], [[gambler-fallacy]] , [[problem-with-averages]], [[base-rate-neglect]], [[deformation-professionelle]], [[regression-to-the-mean]], [[simple-logic]], [[teaching-anecdotes]], **Source** — [[202308101525 — B — The Art of Thinking Clearly]]