Numbers often don't tell the whole story.

Spoiler alert: this story has a happy ending. (The story is true; the
names have been changed.)

Forty-something years ago a close friend of one of the authors started
bleeding early in a pregnancy. The obstetrician was not
encouraging. At one of the office visits, her husband asked the doctor
for more information -- not about the cause of the bleeding (that
couldn't be found out) but about the probability of a healthy
baby. The doctor didn't want to say. The husband pressed. Finally the
doctor gave in: "five percent".

What difference did knowing the number make? Surprisingly, none. The
pregancy would take its course whether or not the doctor answered the
husband's question.