The Best Rebuttal To This Kind Of Statistical Argument Came From The Redoubtable John W.

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The best rebuttal to this kind of statistical argument came from the
redoubtable John W. Campbell:

The laws of population growth tell us that approximately half the
people who were ever born in the history of the world are now
dead. There is therefore a 0.5 probability that this message is
being read by a corpse.

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