Thursday, June 11, 2009

Definition - Exception

This second word was picked because it sounded nice and was a central part of the movie: 'He's just not that into you'; oh joy!

Exception: a statistically improbable outcome.

The film (which is, by the way, lackluster and mind-numbing) uses it in reference to our psychological inability to work with extreme odds, a 5% chance never seems that much worse than a 15 or 10 percent odd of success, let alone our attempt to compare 1 in a million with 1 in a thousand.

Our simple minds, seem to keep things in more robust comparison buckets like: very rare, rare, infrequent, etc. If two events fall into the same category, we don't really care that much...

So hey, we're the exception, now kiss me you fool!

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Lucky you. Not-too-bad movie:)

Dayi said...

jajaja esa pelicula dejo a to el mundo medio loco.
es impresionante como sacas palabras para definiar las cosa, que aunque todos sabemos lo que son pero a la hora de describirlas nos falta precisión, i really like it!

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