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[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (5 children)

If you include bacteria, then probably no human died from the snap. There are significantly more of them

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (4 children)

That's not how percentages work

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Moreover, that's not how probability works in independent events.

It'd be like saying "I flipped coin A 1 billion times and got half a billion heads, so now that I'm flipping coin B 100 times, I probably won't get any more heads."

It should be fairly obvious that you can say the exact same statement about tails, and get a completely contradictory statement.

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