Predictable

I recently heard an interesting observation about human behaviour, patterns, and predictions. 

It’s very difficult to predict what one person will do (ie, download an app, or take the next card in blackjack), but in a population of a million, there are predictable patterns.

I’m not sure how this fits in to anything I do these days, but someone out there is predicting what I might do.  This is the science of statistics, I suppose, and we’re all a part of it.

It applies in elections, pandemics, risk management, economies. 

Individually, we’re not predictable, but in a crowd, we are.