John, well maybe because I have command experience, that I can't work on probabilities...a bang in the tail after V1, with 6000 feet ahead gives me the choice of stopping a rolling aircraft with twice my landing distance ahead, or taking it up in the air, and hoping I have a flyable aircraft...
Now if we get to brass tacks and have a big stadium full of pilots discussing this...I would move to exclude all the pilots who don't have 10,000 hours, who work for airlines who push V1 down the runway with Flex and such, for airlines who purposely run around with 30000 hour engines...exclude high time FOs and Flight Engineers that never had the wherewithal to be captain...
Now what are we left with...guys who have command of a ship and say...'what the heck, let's fly it up there and see what the problem is?'
Fat chance.