• howrar@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Commercial planes are constantly coming and going through every major airport. Do these wealthy people really collectively fly more than that?

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        19 hours ago

        That’s the wrong question to ask. “important people are more likely to be in a plane than unimportant people” is valid as a partial explanation only if we assume that all aircrafts have similar crash probabilities and are flown with a similar number of passengers.

        The frequency with which I personally fly does not impact how often other people fly. All it does is give you one data point on how often other people in my situation might fly, and we don’t know how many others are in my situation, so that information is also useless.