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minus-squareCaptainSpaceman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·edit-24 months ago100/100000 = 1 in 1000 or 0.1% chance its gonna poison you
minus-squareTwentySeven@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·4 months agoPossibly, but which species are more common? Maybe poisonous mushrooms are 0.1% of the number of species, but 10% of the number of mushrooms growing.
minus-squareCaptainSpaceman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·4 months ago“Maybe” Why not look it up like I did instead of postulating and nothing more?
minus-squareTwentySeven@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·4 months agoMy point is that you did not account for how common each species is
minus-squareCaptainSpaceman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·4 months agoNeither did you
100/100000 = 1 in 1000 or 0.1% chance its gonna poison you
Possibly, but which species are more common? Maybe poisonous mushrooms are 0.1% of the number of species, but 10% of the number of mushrooms growing.
“Maybe”
Why not look it up like I did instead of postulating and nothing more?
My point is that you did not account for how common each species is
Neither did you