Why do scientists & businesses prefer to use numbers to describe how likely it is that something will happen?
Usually, when you are measuring something including when you are talking about probability, numbers can convey more information. If you are interested in measuring things accurately (so that your measurements can be repeated by someone else) and/or measuring precisely (so you can see small differences between things that are similar), then using numbers is much better. With regard to probability, if you have some basic data about what you are dealing with, it is quite easy to calculate the statistical probability. And, if you know that the process you are trying to predict behaves in a manner that can be described mathematically (for example, a “normal” distribution), then you can have very high confidence about what the probability is. What many people fail to understand is that probability addresses random chance. So… you can calculate the probability of rolling dice and getting seven but that does not tell you exactly what the next roll of the dice will be. The next roll of the di
