I wrote a thread discussing the mathematics of accurately assessing risk. But I deleted it. Don't have the fight in me. We really need to fix the education system in the US and require Probability and Statistics instead of Calculus.
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Replying to @the_thagomizer
Seriously! I took (and later taught) Probability and Statistics in college and I was like omg why did nobody ever tell me about this earlier!

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Replying to @aaronpk
I got lucky that I got some stars in high school at the expense of most of trig. My CS degree only required 1.5 credits of ProbStat (about 30 hours). By comparison, I was required to take about 100 hours of calculus and differential equations.