| I said: > Sure there are other factors - it's a question of how many times do you have to roll the dice before you get a crash - clearly far too few in this planes case - and that is entirely Boeing's fault. You said: >This "entirely Boeing's fault" stuff just encourages a blinkered view of the situation and is exactly the absolutism You haven't understood what I wrote. Let's say there is a dice - that represents the chances of a combination of different factors occurring ( weather, pilot experience, plane maintenance, chance of debris hitting sensor, cosmic ray hitting computer - whatever ) What numbers that dice rolls is entirely out of Boeing's control. However what is entirely in it's control is what happens when particular combinations, represented by the numbers, come up. So if there is a plane that crashes only when you roll a six, and a plane that crashes when you roll a five or a six, clearly the second plane is 100% worse and yes the individual crash depends on what the dice rolled - but the relative safety of the plane doesn't!!! Do you understand now? |