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[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

100/100000 = 1 in 1000 or 0.1% chance its gonna poison you

[–] TwentySeven@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Possibly, but which species are more common? Maybe poisonous mushrooms are 0.1% of the number of species, but 10% of the number of mushrooms growing.

[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"Maybe"

Why not look it up like I did instead of postulating and nothing more?

[–] TwentySeven@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My point is that you did not account for how common each species is

[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

Neither did you