But I think the probability of that is very low.
It follows that the proposal itself created a dangerous probability of that result.
Now I ask: what was the probability of that happening?
If I roll two sixes, what was the probability of that happening?
And I've noticed myself focusing more on the consequences of something going wrong than just the probability of that happening.
That came a few weeks after BBC business editor Robert Peston claimed: "There is a very big chance that the Co-op will pull out of banking altogether … I think there is a high probability of that".
"If someone loses their job in the U.S.," he said, "the probability of that person finding a new job, even after one or two years, is way higher than in Europe.
"As far as this winter goes, my hunch is that there is essentially zero probability of that happening without climate change," John Walsh, chief scientist at the International Arctic Research Centre in Fairbanks, said.
"While it is perhaps no surprise that a sizeable number of Conservative supporters favour a coalition with Ukip, the probability of that being a viable option at the next election is open to question," she said.
It turns out that the way many of us perceive and cope with risks has little to do with the actual statistical probability of that particular danger affecting us.
The probability of that happening without manipulation is one-tenth of one per cent.All this comes after years of solid improvement in Georgia's public schools.
