Please, what number of cats did not leave the ship before a fatal voyage?
Before one start to worship cats as some divine creates that can foretell the future, maybe some critical thoughts are in order.
Before one start to worship cats as some divine creates that can foretell the future, maybe some critical thoughts are in order.
It's also an old sailor's superstition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailors%27_superstitions#Cats
That actually doesn't matter too much. As long as the cats which do leave the ship is a predictor of disaster. Even a slight correlation, say 1%, would be useful; do you want to take a 1% risk to your life? Maybe buy an extra lifeboat or something?
Of course, the prior probability of this hypothesis is pretty low, but it isn't to superstitious people.
:-)