fossilesqueM to Science MemesEnglish · 4 months agoMushroom Guidesimagemessage-square128fedilinkarrow-up11.14Karrow-down117cross-posted to: memes@slrpnk.netnonpolitical_memes@lemmy.ml
arrow-up11.13Karrow-down1imageMushroom GuidesfossilesqueM to Science MemesEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square128fedilinkcross-posted to: memes@slrpnk.netnonpolitical_memes@lemmy.ml
minus-squareWhelks_chance@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·4 months agoI’m less interested in the total number of species, and more interested in my likelihood of holding one
minus-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoI see about 5 unknown mushrooms for every one known deadly one (death cap, growing under the canopy of an oak)
minus-squareCaptainSpaceman@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·edit-24 months ago100/100000 = 1 in 1000 or 0.1% chance its gonna poison you
minus-squareTwentySeven@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·4 months agoPossibly, but which species are more common? Maybe poisonous mushrooms are 0.1% of the number of species, but 10% of the number of mushrooms growing.
minus-squareCaptainSpaceman@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·4 months ago“Maybe” Why not look it up like I did instead of postulating and nothing more?
minus-squareTwentySeven@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·4 months agoMy point is that you did not account for how common each species is
minus-squareCaptainSpaceman@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·4 months agoNeither did you
I’m less interested in the total number of species, and more interested in my likelihood of holding one
I see about 5 unknown mushrooms for every one known deadly one (death cap, growing under the canopy of an oak)
100/100000 = 1 in 1000 or 0.1% chance its gonna poison you
Possibly, but which species are more common? Maybe poisonous mushrooms are 0.1% of the number of species, but 10% of the number of mushrooms growing.
“Maybe”
Why not look it up like I did instead of postulating and nothing more?
My point is that you did not account for how common each species is
Neither did you