Given that you found it in an unrefrigerated crate after who knows how long it was there and who knows who made it out of who knows what, I’m thinking that only having a 4% chance of vomiting was pretty generous of the devs.
Everyone who is against the vomiting seem incongruously quite forgiving about being able to store perishables forever in crates. That is the true fantasy going on here. But people hate spoilage in games so....
I see the game says 4% chance, I wish I had way of seeing these numbers in action while playing in order to test because I really think its bugged out.
One time i was eating and eating and i vomited something along the lines of 8 out of 10 times i ate....that just does not seem like 4%, possible yes likely I would puke that much from 4% very very unlikely. Flip a coin and it'll land 50% on one side and 50% on the other, probability. 4%... 8 out of 10...yeah not 4% at all...just my observations. *shrugs*
I also noticed eating like, cornbread seems to have a much greater chance of 4% than grilled meat...
This all could be bad luck but very very unlikely as probability state otherwise.
Boring math:
Here’s another common question in probability: “If you were to flip four coins, what are the chances that they would all come up heads?”
In this situation, you have four coins that are all independent events. So in this case, the correct calculation to determine the probability is:
½ x ½ x ½ x ½ = 1/16
Every flip of the coin doesn’t depend on the other coin flips, and we are dealing with a situation where one thing must occur as well as several other things. This is an “and” situation. When dealing with “and” situations, you must multiply the probabilities together. Remember, “and” means multiplication. Every flip has a probability of ½, so when these probabilities are multiplied together the probability of getting all heads on four coin flips is 1/16.
What if you were asked for the probability that a coin would come up heads four times in a row if a coin was flipped 20 times in a row? As seen in the smaller example above, there should be an “and” condition for every one of the twenty flips. So we’re looking for the probability of:
(½)^20 , which can be expressed as 1/(20)^20
Essentially, when doing this computation we are computing the value of ½ times ½ times ½, etc. repeated 20 times. You can apply this formula to any number of times a coin is flipped if you’re looking for the same outcome anytime, just fill in “N” with the number of times you flip the coin:
(½)^N
Note that while the odds of getting heads twenty times in a row are extremely low, approximately one in a million, if we had every American conduct this experiment many people would actually find that they were successful in getting twenty heads in a row, because of the sheer amount of people doing the experiment. Remember this when unlikely events seem to occur, that there are millions of events taking place every day and we just pay attention to the ones that are relevant to us.
so whats the probabolity that by eating 10 times 8 of those times i puke? <-- Not a real question just a question to get the wheels turning in some peoples heads.
