On 18/03/2011 23:19, Bolted wrote:
On Mar 18, 10:13 pm, wrote:
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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.


He actually said the evidence is that there had been three in 3,000 years.

Colin Bignell