Comments on: Uncle’s law http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/11/27/uncles_law/ Remember, I do this to entertain me... not you. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:09:31 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sigivald http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/11/27/uncles_law/comment-page-1/#comment-150413 Sigivald Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:58:35 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2006/11/27/uncles_law/#comment-150413 Plus, two failures at 50% don't come close to establishing a 99% chance of failure for you personally. The raw odds of failing twice like that are, after all, 25%. Plus, two failures at 50% don’t come close to establishing a 99% chance of failure for you personally.

The raw odds of failing twice like that are, after all, 25%.

]]> By: SayUncle http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/11/27/uncles_law/comment-page-1/#comment-150405 SayUncle Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:56:00 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2006/11/27/uncles_law/#comment-150405 I knew there was a flaw in my logic. I knew there was a flaw in my logic.

]]> By: Chris http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/11/27/uncles_law/comment-page-1/#comment-150398 Chris Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:49:25 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2006/11/27/uncles_law/#comment-150398 It only seems as if you're wrong in all of these cases... because if you hadn't been wrong, you wouldn't know it. If you had installed the door handle properly, you still wouldn't know that it was possible to do so incorrectly, so you wouldn't count that as something you had a 50% chance of screwing up, and didn't. It only seems as if you’re wrong in all of these cases… because if you hadn’t been wrong, you wouldn’t know it.

If you had installed the door handle properly, you still wouldn’t know that it was possible to do so incorrectly, so you wouldn’t count that as something you had a 50% chance of screwing up, and didn’t.

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