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Ignoring or underweighting probability when making decisions. Statistics meet intuition badly.
Drives irrational fears, poor insurance decisions, and explains why people both gamble and worry about plane crashes.
People treat 1% and 0.01% probabilities almost the same way, which explains both unnecessary anxiety and dangerous overconfidence.
"Statistically speaking, you're probably wrong about statistics. And about speaking, for that matter."