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Your information is interesting, but your inference is incorrect. The Birthday Paradox has absolutely nothing to do with procreation, and everything to do with
by quesera 9y ago
Your information is interesting, but your inference is incorrect.
The Birthday Paradox has absolutely nothing to do with procreation, and everything to do with statistical probability.
- oso2k 9y agoProbability is just a model in lieu of the actual data with many built-in assumptions. Probability is a shortcut finding, collecting or generating data. My point is, if you have the data or a very large faction thereof, use it. Don't guess using probabilities.
- quesera 9y agoRight, but it's really not about birthdays at all. It's specifically about coincidences in a randomly distributed set. It just says "birthday" in the common name because that's a relatable, if imperfect, example.