If people die from carbon monoxide poisoning in the same hotel room two months apart, a normal person would probably not rent the room until the source could be identified and eliminated. An elected person, however, would lobby the legislature to require all hotel rooms in the state to have CO detectors.

In other words, an aspiring mathematician trying this would get a Czechoslovakian chewing out for invoking the “one therefore all” fallacy. An aspiring engineer would be flunked out for considering widespread inefficient use of limited resources. A politician would likely be re-elected.