"Andrei Alexandrescu" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On 3/12/12 6:02 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> Does nobody understand basic statistics? > > I don't see evidence they don't. > >> First of all, 1-2% is a *hell* of a *LOT* of people. Don't be fooled by >> the >> seemingly small number: It's a percentage and it's out of a *very* large >> population. So 1-2% is still *huge*. > > This is a truism. Yeah, 1% is huge but the rest is 99 times huger. It's a > reasonable business decision to forgo 1-2% reach (and therefore potential > profit) if the cost of that reach is larger than the projected increase in > the profit. >
You can rationalize it by hiding behind the "it's business!" veil all you want, but at the end of the day, you're still saying "fuck you" to millions of people.
