Talk:881: Probability

2014-01-20T00:39:36Z

108.162.214.53:

I've been through this, even though it was a little over a year ago, this strip brings me back to how I tried to rationalise the probabilities to deal with the news, and the only thing I could think of was "I want a better number, god, noodle-monster, anybody, please, give me a better number".

John [[Special:Contributions/60.225.31.6|60.225.31.6]] 00:40, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

Can anyone please provide an update to this page on Randall's fiance's health? Apologies if this is common knowledge.
I agree with John's reaction. I wanted a better number for my wife back in the spring of 2008, and got it. She survived 3 years instead of the (then) predicted average of six months for inflammatory breast cancer. We could have been just an outlier on the low probability end of the curve, but I like to think the medical community is continually improving their curves, and I am very grateful for the extra time. She passed away four days after this strip was posted - which explains why I haven't seen this strip until now.

[[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.228|108.162.216.228]] 21:26, 28 November 2013 (UTC)Grant

So, how is this incomplete? Can we remove the incompleteness mark? --[[Special:Contributions/173.245.53.196|173.245.53.196]] 13:02, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

I think the linking to the blog post is more sensitive than explaining it here. Remove tag? --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.207|141.101.98.207]] 14:19, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

What is the dashed line? It kind of looks like it might be the derivative of the solid line.[[Special:Contributions/108.162.214.53|108.162.214.53]] 00:39, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

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Talk:881: Probability