Looks at post title and wonders if Boeing

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Is Boeing

Southwest Airlines uses Boeing aircraft exclusively. Lucky me gets to try my luck in two weeks. 🙄

Thousands of flights happen every day. Statistically, you’ll be fine.

Everybody who has ever died in a plane crash was also, statistically, going to be fine.

That’s not how statistics works.

Just because you win the lottery, that doesn’t mean it was bound to happen. It’s the same with bad luck. Your tile floor in the bathroom is literally more dangerous than an airplane. Do you steel yourself to confront death when you step out of the shower?

You’re statistically unlikely to be killed by a shark. Do you want to share a swimming pool with one?

Statistics aren’t a suit of armor and they can be deeply misleading without context. If every plane in the air crashed today, how would the statistics change? Would 0.00001 become 0.00002? Would you tell people there was nothing to fear because it’s still statistically unlikely?

I would guess that every single passenger jet that has ever crashed had at least one person who reassured themselves “it won’t happen to me”.