>>935940907>personal experience > StatisticsI'll give you an example of the flaws with this logic.
Suppose someone insists that, "I don't fly because I knew someone who died in a plane crash." Without statistics, you would have no way of convincing this person that, in actuality, plane crashes are incredibly rare, and it would just be your experience vs. their experience.
Let's say the person making that claim is your ailing grandmother. Let's say she needs a kidney transplant urgently, and the nearest place to get one is a 36 hour car ride or 2 hour plane flight away. Because you can't convince her to get on the plane, she ends up dying. Now, you've lost your dear grandmother because of the fact that personal experience outranks statistics.
This is just an example, but I'm trying to give you a tangible consequence of this line of thinking.