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the combination of Blair being good and Clinton being lucky Did you read the Wiki? Someone did some calculations of the "luck" involved: Using a model that
by PhantomGremlin 11y ago
the combination of Blair being good and Clinton being lucky
Did you read the Wiki? Someone did some calculations of the "luck" involved:
Using a model that was stated to give the
hypothetical investor the benefit of the doubt,
they concluded that the odds of such a return
happening were at best 1 in 31 trillion
For comparison, current Powerball odds are a mere 1 in 175 million. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerball#Payout_and_odds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerball#Payout_and_odds
- nl 11y agoYeah. If you calculate the odds on any given combination of trades they are frequently vanishingly rare. Lottery wins are incredibly unlikely too, and yet people win them.
- mercer 11y agoYes, but if the person winning the lottery is part of the lottery company, or has connections to it, a lot of suspicion seems warranted.
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