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It’s an example of the birthday problem.
by baron816 8y ago
It’s an example of the birthday problem.
- acqq 8y agoAka a birthday “paradox”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem https://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-birthday-paradox/ https://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-birth... “23 people. In a room of just 23 people there’s a 50-50 chance of two people having the same birthday. ”
- brilee 8y agoThe birthday paradox arises because with N people, there are N^2 possible pairings of people for birthday collisions, and thus the number of people required for a collision scales as sqrt(D), an unexpected result. But here, there aren't N^2 possible pairings since each researcher would still just be studying 1 gene. So this is really as surprising as the article claims.