>>16712840
This is accurate.

Normal people:
>previous results means I'm FUCKED
>everybody else all surivived means Imma gonna die to balance out the stats

Mathematicians:
>previous results means NOTHING
>every dice roll is independent; I'm still 50/50 no matter how many people happened to luck out before me.

Scientists:
>previous results means I'm GOLDEN
>whatever experiment that resulted in the documented 50/50 rate clearly didn't model the actual procedure accurately. This many people all surviving means the real rate is probably up there in the 90s. YESSSSSSS.

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I don't understand this meme. If the surgery has a 50% chance of killing you and the 20 previous patients survived, doesn't that mean that…