To: fortheDeclaration; Nervous Tick; gogeo
The probability of winning
six consecutive coin flips is one in 64. Thats
0.015625, same as 1.5625%. That's 63-to-1 against; not impossible odds, just unlikely. Unlikely events occasionally happen.
Very basic probability arithmetic.
93 posted on
02/02/2016 1:29:04 PM PST by
goldbux
(CDO / I may have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, but at least I put the letters in correct sequence.)
To: goldbux
Meaningless to the actual event.
It is based on statistics which are based on past events.
That is why it is called the gamblers fallacy.
You can roll the dice and they can come up snake eyes 1,000 times in a row.
The past event has nothing to with the present.
154 posted on
02/02/2016 11:19:45 PM PST by
fortheDeclaration
(Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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