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Mushroom Guides (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm less interested in the total number of species, and more interested in my likelihood of holding one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I see about 5 unknown mushrooms for every one known deadly one (death cap, growing under the canopy of an oak)

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

100/100000 = 1 in 1000 or 0.1% chance its gonna poison you

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Possibly, but which species are more common? Maybe poisonous mushrooms are 0.1% of the number of species, but 10% of the number of mushrooms growing.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Maybe"

Why not look it up like I did instead of postulating and nothing more?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My point is that you did not account for how common each species is

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

Neither did you