The logician hasn’t reasoned correctly, he isn’t using the fact that we know the subject has been struck by lightning. Statistics show that 10% of the people who are struck by lightning die as a result, which is much higher than the chances of a randomly selected person being struck by lightning. It is true that a person selected from the total population pool has a very small chance of being struck by lightning, and since not everyone who is struck by lightning dies as a result the randomly selected person has even less of a chance of dying as a result of a lightning strike – but in this case the subject isn’t part of the general population, he is part of the small pool of people who have been hit by lightning.
Differentname about 5 years ago
Life Pro Tip = If you can be offended after being struck by lightning you’re doing okay.
Ida No about 5 years ago
A sympathetic logician? Shocking.
syzygy47 about 5 years ago
And the odds of getting superpowers from being struck by lightning….
gnome about 5 years ago
logical…..What did you expect?
mikeBridges about 5 years ago
The logician hasn’t reasoned correctly, he isn’t using the fact that we know the subject has been struck by lightning. Statistics show that 10% of the people who are struck by lightning die as a result, which is much higher than the chances of a randomly selected person being struck by lightning. It is true that a person selected from the total population pool has a very small chance of being struck by lightning, and since not everyone who is struck by lightning dies as a result the randomly selected person has even less of a chance of dying as a result of a lightning strike – but in this case the subject isn’t part of the general population, he is part of the small pool of people who have been hit by lightning.