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Smokescreen Complexity: Inclusion of the Probable

If someone said to you that it is virtually impossible to know the probability of how many car-to-pedestrian related deaths there are in a given city, you might be inclined to think that such a problem would be far too vast and complex to ever ’solve.’

This might seem reasonable, since, after all, how could we ever corner such a huge number of variables to end up with one figure?

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