What I'd give to be a weatherperson, to get paid for being likable, looking nice, pointing to a blank screen and knowing full well that I will be wrong to some extent 99% of the time.
Just the other night, they were calling for a 30% chance of isolated thunderstorms. So, according to them, there was a 70% chance we wouldn't get these storms. It rained and stormed off and on from midnight to nine in the morning.
I think we'd be just as accurate in thinking the opposite of what weatherpeople tells us. The percentages have to equal 100, so since they said there was only a 30% chance of isolated thunderstorms, there's actually a 70% chance. If there's a 100% chance, then okay, we can count on there being some precipitation. If they don't mention rain at all, then alright, there's no chance. However, if they say there's a 10% chance of rain, get your umbrellas ready, because what they're really saying is that there's a 90% chance of precipitation! At the end of the year, if one were to tally up the number of times their percentage was more accurate than mine and vice versa, I'm guessing we'd be pretty even.
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