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Guns don’t kill people, puppies do
- MindTwister 17y agoFor the tldr; crowd, its basically about how given a big enough sample size very unlikely things become a possibility, ex: you puppy shooting you in the face.
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- fexl 17y agoThe guy had it comin', I say. ;)
- rubinelli 17y agoAn interesting -- and sometimes dangerous -- consequence of this is that, whatever your position in a subject, you can practically always find an anecdote that will seem to prove your point, if only you look hard enough for it.
- algorias 17y agoSummary: Having 3 children with the same birthday sounds like a 1/365^3 possibility, but it's actually 1/365^2, as the first can be any date, as long as the next 2 are the same. Add to that the amount of births per year per country, and it's not such a headline worthy story anymore. EDIT: fixed formatting
- Retric 17y agoWTF? Where did you get 3652? Their number is calculated as 365 x 365 x 365 = 48,627,125. But in reality, of course, it’s out by an order of magnitude: one in 50 million are the odds of someone having 3 siblings sharing one particular prespecified birth date that the editors of the Daily Express sealed in an envelope and gave to a lawyer 50 years ago. In reality there is no constraint on which day the first baby gets born on, so after that, the odds of two more babies sharing that birthday are 365×365=133,225.
- tlrobinson 17y agoAnd of course that's assuming a completely random date of conception. If you try to conceive on the same date every year then it's much more likely.
- dlsspy 17y agoToo many babies in the UK. Too many puppies with guns in their hands. Anything is possible.