Humans are experts at either utterly ignoring what might happen in the future or being embarrassingly bad at basic probability. How would you behave if you had a flashing statistic saying, “ One percent of the population will die in a car crash,” every time you turned on the ignition? Or how would you feel if, as you got married, someone piped up from the back, “There’s a high chance this won’t last!”? And would you stop playing the lottery if you knew that you had a greater chance of being killed by a tornado, struck by lightning, or even hit by a meteorite than winning? Imagine what life would be like if you spent the entire time dwelling on the probabilities of how things might turn out. Ignorance is not only bliss it is necessary.
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