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To: VanShuyten
It is probably a sort of "cluster" phenomena.

Those who are struck are in a pool of people who are much more likely to be struck.

Just as those who are mauled by a bear are in a pool of people much more likely to be mauled by a bear.

The article says comparing bear attacks to lightning strikes is silly, just propaganda.

I looked it up in reference to comparing the odds of winning the Powerball vs getting hit by lightening twice. The twice-struck odds were almost 10 times greater than buying the winning Powerball ticket.

I think you mean the odds of getting struck twice are 10 times less likely, but the syntax is unclear.

22 posted on 05/15/2020 7:54:14 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: marktwain

Yes. Whatever you said is what I meant. Posting In the morning with less than a cup of coffee is something I should avoid.

If I remember correctly, about 3-4 of them were fishermen in Florida.


24 posted on 05/15/2020 9:00:01 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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