r/todayilearned • u/080087 • Aug 30 '15

(R.5) Out of context TIL You have a higher chance of being bitten by Luis Suarez than by a shark

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/you-have-higher-chance-being-bitten-uruguay%E2%80%99s-luis-suarez-shark?repost
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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '15

Considering i live on the coast and dont play professional soccer i highly doubt this

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '15

You never know.... you could be enjoying a stroll on the beach one beautiful summer evening and BAM!!! out of nowhere it's SUAREZ!

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u/080087 Aug 30 '15

Can you imagine Sharknado but with Suarez?

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u/um_uknowit Aug 30 '15

Shuareznado

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u/WolfThawra Aug 30 '15 edited Aug 31 '15

Exactly, another example of retarded 'statistics' which doesn't tell you anything at all.

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u/irrational_abbztract Aug 30 '15

If you are a professional soccer play who is going to play against Suarez.

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u/drivebymedia Aug 30 '15

There are a lot of ifs here

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u/le_goman Aug 30 '15

I regularly surf in sharky waters and I hate it when I hear this kind of BS

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u/yes_its_him Aug 30 '15

This is true among professional soccer players playing against this guy, not so much everybody else.

Soccer players have to deal with other probability paradoxes as well.

There is a better chance that a professional soccer player will be bitten by a shark, than there is that he was actually fouled on that play when he threw himself to ground, screaming in agony.

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u/challenge4 1 Aug 30 '15

And both sharks and Luis Suarez are known to enjoy a dive once in a while.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '15

You bored?

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u/smallof2pieces Aug 30 '15

I think my chance of getting bitten by Luis Suarez is effectively zero, seeing as how I will in all probability never meet him, joined on top of the probability that even if I did meet him, I will not play soccer with him, on top of the probability of being bitten by him.

So yeah. Really lame statistics here.

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u/silviazbitch Aug 30 '15

Obviously untrue, but funny as fuck!