How does statistics work?

If i put one bullet in a five shot revolver and get a click then then statistics dont like stack up on me daily if i spin the cylinder every morning i still have the same 20% chance right?

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BlueVeins · 22-25

You have the same 20% chance of dying the next morning, yes. But the cumulative probability of dying within say, a year, from today's perspective, is basically 1.

Genieinabottle · 51-55, M

So probability and statistics are different things or am i misunderstadnding@BlueVeins

BlueVeins · 22-25

@Genieinabottle Technically, yes. Statistics is basically the practice of using samples to estimate parameters about populations and making extrapolations. Or in English, selecting a subset of a larger group, and using the members of that subset to draw conclusions about the larger group.

What you're talking about though, fits pretty neatly into the category of probability.