Failures of Actix will be “ergotic”; individuals experiencing the failure will be able to play again, experiencing the long-term average failure rate.
Failures of a roller-coaster are “non-ergotic”; individuals never experience the long-term average failure rate, since they’re, you know, dead...
This has got to be the most common and tragic type of mis-application of statistics I’m aware of; I know I used to do it all the time! Virtually nobody teaches/talks about it, but it is arguably more critical to understand than “causation vs. correlation”, or “post hoc ergo propter hoc”.
Failures of a roller-coaster are “non-ergotic”; individuals never experience the long-term average failure rate, since they’re, you know, dead...
This has got to be the most common and tragic type of mis-application of statistics I’m aware of; I know I used to do it all the time! Virtually nobody teaches/talks about it, but it is arguably more critical to understand than “causation vs. correlation”, or “post hoc ergo propter hoc”.