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Jun23-07, 12:49 PM   #18
 
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FLUKEY OR SPOOKY? Incredible real-life coincidences ...or are they?


I am well aware of the laws of large numbers, but the fact is, to attribute all such "coincidences" to odds is a faith statement. Unless we have a way to quantify each episode and compare the frequency of such events, we can't know if they are explained by the odds. From a scientific pov we would expect this all to be explained by the laws of very large numbers, but without a model to test this assertion, we are only guessing.