 A second, more radical assessment focuses on the question of whether it is appropriate to think of the sorts of statistical theories and hypotheses on which Hempel and Salmon discuss as explaining individual events or outcomes at all. For example, why not instead take quantum mechanics to explain (i) the probabilities with which individual outcomes like decay events occur but not (ii) those individual outcomes themselves? If we adopt (i) the relationship between a quantum mechanical model and such explananda will be deductive and thus subsumable under whatever model of deductive explanation we favor. This raises the question of what additional work is accomplished by models of statistical explanation of either the IS or SR sort. 