It's not mad, Brian, it's normal human nature. Most people don't really understand statistics so using them as reasons why people should give money to charity doesn't often work. This understanding is why telethons like 'Children in Need' work very well because they use individual case studies, showing a few individual kids who are dying of a disease in Africa rather than just throwing out stats saying that millions are dying.
People find large numbers hard to deal with so they switch off. They find individual cases much easier to understand so individual cases will often gain more interest (lack of global interest during huge genocides is often due to this, they throw stats at us which forces us to think of dying people as numbers).
Or, as Stalin famously said, "The death of one (man) is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic."
And he probably knew this better than anybody. The bigger the numbers, the less people associate with what is happening.
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Originally Posted by Katyppfan
When Pete plays it is 100% live , your music if that's what you call it doesn't sound so good either? so you can't really critercize can you ?
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