Originally Posted by
Ziggurat
There is no objective answer to that. One can calculate the odds, one can calculate the frequency of events, etc, etc. But whether or not it's worth considering, well, that's up to you. I am fine ignoring a 1 in 1000 chance of dropping an egg when I take it out of the refrigerator, but if there was a 1 in 1000 chance that I would die in a car crash on my way to work, that would worry me.
Would you rather have a 1 in 1,000 chance that you would die in a car crash on your way to work during one trip, or a 1 in 10,000 chance during each of ten trips?
Or do you think they are both the same?