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On Mar 18, 10:13*pm, geoff wrote:
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harry writes



On Mar 17, 6:31 pm, "Nightjar \"cpb\"@" "insertmysurnamehere wrote:
This tsunami is now being rated as a 1 in 1,000 year event.
Realistically, nobody plans for events that rare.


Colin Bignell


You have no grasp of statistics. *There have been three major tsunamis
in the last ten years.


I have to save that one ...

Harry, you're a proper bellend (curve), no doubt about that


Huge seems to be equally poor at stats, although probably just led
astray by a very poorly written article.

The seismologist said the last similar event happened 1000 years ago.
Spot the difference.