Comment The Article Was Flawed (Score 2) 213
IANAS (I am not a statistician), but the basic problem I saw with the article was that it listed various probabilities for certain things, but didn't really add up to one hundred percent. So, a 1 percent chance the world is going to end a certain way, by implication leaves a 99 percent chance for it to end another way. At most, it didn't come close to a hundred percent for all options. Another flaw was that, IIRC, the Earth has around 300 million years of oxygen, and will be consumed by the sun in another 2.8 billion years, both of which are a relative certainty, and I don't remember either being listed. In theory, the risk of asteroid impact should be progressively lower as time goes on, and the other risks, outside of resource depletion and nuclear war, are just speculation. Even with resource depletion, life in some form is going to exist, albeit not with modern conveniences, and nuclear war's survivability is open for debate. I guess the one thing we can be completely certain about is that even Oxford University likes to put a little clickbait out, now and then.