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Yes, but there is also a theory that celebs die in three's which is pretty interesting. A lot of researchers say this is because we as humans love patterns: “P
by at-fates-hands 11y ago
Yes, but there is also a theory that celebs die in three's which is pretty interesting. A lot of researchers say this is because we as humans love patterns:
“Patterns in death, patterns in misfortune – those are things that help us try to understand the universe or reality in a way that makes sense of it,” explains John Hoopes, a professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas who has written about the concept for Psychology Today. “In general, we’re very uncomfortable dealing with randomness.”
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/celebrities-dont-really-die-3s-heres-why-you-think-they-6C10473732 http://www.nbcnews.com/health/celebrities-dont-really-die-3s...
- philh 11y agoI recall seeing a suggestion that "everything" happens in threes, in a meaningful sense. Something along the lines of: you take events which happen according to a poisson distribution with parameter L, and you define a cluster to be "any group of events which happen with no more than time L between adjacent ones", and then the expected size of a cluster is a little less than three. I'm probably misremembering the details, and I can't immediately find a source, but I thought this was interesting.
- eterm 11y ago3 is the closest integer to e which plays a large part in randomness.
- jasonkostempski 11y agoThen it seems pretty unethical to keep loving patterns so much. I'm going to start including as much anti-pattern in my coding as possible.