Richard von Mises Quote

The whole financial basis of insurance would be questionable if it were possible to change the relative frequency of the occurrence of the insurance cases (deaths, etc.) by excluding, for example, every tenth one of the insured persons, or by some selection principal.


First Lecture, The Definition of Probability, p. 26 - Probability, Statistics And Truth - Second Revised English Edition - (1957)


The whole financial basis of insurance would be questionable if it were possible to change the relative frequency of the occurrence of the insurance...

The whole financial basis of insurance would be questionable if it were possible to change the relative frequency of the occurrence of the insurance...

The whole financial basis of insurance would be questionable if it were possible to change the relative frequency of the occurrence of the insurance...

The whole financial basis of insurance would be questionable if it were possible to change the relative frequency of the occurrence of the insurance...