Very weird coincidence... (Vanity posted in chat)

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[mowowie]

So i have this Bluetooth speaker loaded with something like 6,000 songs that plays them randomly all night as i work. Yesterday i was at a workstation and East Bound and Down by Jerry Reed started playing around 6am. first time in over two years that song came up on my speaker if ever. I like that song....Smokey and the Bandit and all.. Today at the exact same time i happened to walk by my co-worker who happened to be working at the exact same workstation at the exact same time, 6am and he had the exact same song playing on his speaker. I was like WTF? He said his I-pod was also playing songs in random order and he hasn't heard that somewhat obscure song come up in ages.

What is the probability of THAT happening? It totally freaked us out...

[mowowie]

So i have this Bluetooth speaker loaded with something like 6,000 songs that plays them randomly all night as i work. Yesterday i was at a work station and East Bound and Down by Jerry Reed started playing around 6am. first time in over two years that song came up on my speaker if ever. Today at the exact same time i happened to walk by my co-worker who happened to be working at the exact same workstation at the exact same time, 6am and had the exact same song playing on his speaker. I was like WTF? He said his I-pod was also playing songs in random order and haven't heard that somewhat obscure song come up in ages.

What is the probability of THAT happening? It totally freaked us out...

I find this completely bizarre...

What are the odds? Has to be astronomical..

[humblegunner]

“I”.

[Moltke]

Quick, buy a Lotto ticket!

[trisham]

I wish I could help, but math is not my subject.

[mlo]

"What are the odds? Has to be astronomical.."

The odds of that happening on a day predicted day, with a predicted pair of people, would be astronomical.

The odds of it happening somewhere at sometime with some people? Not so much.

[mowowie]

I DID!!

[Moonman62]

I think your co-worker is playing a joke on you.

[Innovative]

Sometimes weird things do happen.

[Ken H]

When you’re hot, you’re hot.

[Red Badger]

If it is truly ‘random’ the odds of any one song being played is exactly the same for all songs in the group.

I would bet that the ‘random’ part is not truly random and only partially so..........

[SkyDancer]

Six thousand factorial!

The number of trailing 0s in 6000! is 1498

➥ The number of digits in 6000 factorial is 20066.

➥ The factorial of 6000 is calculated as below: 6000! = 6000 • 5999 • 5998 • 5997 • 5996 ... 3 • 2 • 1

[Celerity]

Two days ago I played that same song at the local waffle house. Just out of the blue. I hadn’t heard it or even thought of it in decades. Then suddenly it popped into my head.

CERN. That must be it.

[Spruce]

Earlier today the piped-in music at work was playing “Afternoon Delight”.

It was truly horrifying

[Mount Athos]

“I think your co-worker is playing a joke on you.”

occam’s razor says so too

[Rocky]

“Random” can be a very deceptive concept. Whatever software is used to generate the random order may have biases built into it that are not obvious to the programmer himself.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Red Flag

[mowowie]

No, he was nowhere around at the time..

[Red Badger]

I think your coworker stole your ipod..................

[Berlin_Freeper]

Welcome to the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, otherwise known as frequency illusion or recency illusion. This phenomenon occurs when the thing you've just noticed, experienced or been told about suddenly crops up constantly. It gives you the feeling that out of nowhere, pretty much everyone and their cousin are talking about the subject -- or that it is swiftly surrounding you.

[mowowie]

These were two separate completely different devices loaded with thousands of songs...both containing East Bound and Down.
That alone is a weird coincidence lol.

But to play the same obscure song at the same location at the same time on two completely different devices 24 hours apart?
That is weird..

When it played for me there was no one around to hear it and i forgot about it 10 seconds after hearing it.
This was no joke pulled on me.