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Whelks_chance@lemmy.world
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I’m less interested in the total number of species, and more interested in my likelihood of holding one

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

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CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world
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100/100000 = 1 in 1000 or 0.1% chance its gonna poison you

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TwentySeven@lemmy.world
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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.

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CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world
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“Maybe”

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

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