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Weatherpeople

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 precipitati...