I seem to recall a study showing that people who watch lots of TV tend to overestimate the probability per unit time of undergoing certain acts of violence by an order of magnitude. (But maybe it’s just that people who watch lots of TV and people who don’t suck at probabilistic reasoning are mostly non-overlapping groups, or something like that.)
I seem to recall a study showing that people who watch lots of TV tend to overestimate the probability per unit time of undergoing certain acts of violence by an order of magnitude. (But maybe it’s just that people who watch lots of TV and people who don’t suck at probabilistic reasoning are mostly non-overlapping groups, or something like that.)
On the flip side: as a child, my father wondered why anyone would ever commit a crime, because, as he saw on TV, criminals were always caught...
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