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In reply to the discussion: George Zimmerman Emerged From Hiding for Truck Crash Rescue [View all]Kurska
(5,739 posts)Statically unprobable doesn't mean it didn't happen, in fact given the sheer number of human beings to pick from, places it could happen and events that could happen the vast majority of all human interactions are statically unprobable.
Did I ever tell you about the time this specific person, at this specific intersection happened to help at this specific time. Whoa how crazy is that! Actually not crazy at all.
The key problem is you're treating all those events as mutually exclusive. In fact the probability that Zimmerman would be the one to respond to an accident is the exact same as pretty much any other person in central Florida (obviously variable based on how often one spends driving), the difference being that Zimmerman was the one who did so it made the news. When you factor in this accident was in his local community, so maybe there were about a couple thousand other people who could have responded, you realize this event wasn't actually that unlikely at all. There was an accident (happens all the time), someone responded (happens all the time), of a community of thousands it happened to be Zimmerman (the fact that our planet is inhabitable zone of orbit is lower than this one).
Just because you throw out a scientific sounding term like prima facie, doesn't mean you know what you are talking about.