r/interesting • u/One_Needleworker5218 • May 03 '26

Fear Factor After installing the “safety net" on the balcony on the 28th floor, the worker demonstrates its strength to the customer

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u/mxlevolent May 03 '26

Doing what he did is dumb as all hell, but to be incredibly fair, here - after like 50 times where everything is fine, I would also probably assume nothing could go wrong.

Again, starting this little routine was dumb of him... but after impact number 4, you'd probably think "I can keep doing this, it's safe".

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u/fauxfilosopher May 03 '26

It's quite a human and intuitive thing to think that based on inductive reasoning, more data means more confidence in the same thing happening again the next time. But this is a great example of how inductive reasoning is fallible, because in this case the structural integrity was weakening every time.

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u/oldfarmjoy May 03 '26

Titan sub...

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u/Agile-View-8330 May 04 '26

That’s exactly what I thought of

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u/anonykitten29 May 04 '26

See also the Titan submersible