Ys, maybe people respect medicine. When a doctor tells a person to keep a diet or have medicine, compliance is high. But somehow math doesn’t get same respect. So individuals make quick computation about invisible danger based on an article headline and can’t imagine what else is there. R Twersky said that one needs to learn physiology to appreciate miracles of Hashem,
I would add statistics to that. After all, a miracle is a low probability event, so to appreciate them, one needs at least one graduate course on order statistics
