Posted on 09/24/2019 11:20:24 AM PDT by 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...
I guess it would be if random and not a song repeated.
Once traveling north from SoCal on I5 through an area called Grapevine CA prior to Bakersfield, I heard the song ‘heard it through the grapevine, random coincidence.
Ever since Gillette got “woke” I’ve only been buying Occam’s razors.
Ever since Gillette got “woke” I’ve only been buying Occam’s razors.
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That’s not a bad choice. They are certainly the sharpest available.
I considered doing the same since I, like many others, terminated forever my relationship with Gillette. But I’m lazy. I settled for one of those newfangled Norelco’s.
I guess that you are right..
Yea i find myself repeatedly hitting the SKIP button at work.
lol
I have around 4000 songs on a micro sd card plugged into the speaker playing in shuffle mode but for some reason Ozzy’s Crazy Train always seems to play every night while many other songs i never hear..
So don’t go “off the rails”. Put it on Alphabetical.
But you probably can’t do that on an SD card, can you.
it is a pretty basic speaker, no screen or anything...out of the box it would only play alphabetical i had to download a firmware file from it’s website to make it play in shuffle mode.
I’d use my mp3 player but that chinese made pos broke recently after 3 months of owning it.
Still it sounds real good and only cost 28 bucks... the memory card feature is a plus.
As a math geek the chances of that one thing happening as you said are virtually zero. (Same old obscure song you haven't heard in forever, played at the same time of day exactly 24 hours later on someone else's device, both playing at random.)
However, of all the things we encounter in our daily activities, there are bound to be the off-the-wall occurrences. For example, if it wasn't the Smokey and the Bandit Song it might be another rare situation like just happening within one hour apart seeing two different cars that look exactly like your first car you had decades ago as a teenager. Or just happening to meet a woman who's first name matches your mother's middle name (assuming it's a fairly unusual name), then exactly a week later meeting someone else with the same name.
So in isolation this one occurrence (East Bound and Down playing at the exact same time of day) is really unusual. But it'd be rare to go through a week or so without at least one thing unusual happening with all of the possible combinations of "unusual" you can think of that can happen, and many more you can't think of off the top of your head.
If the question wasn't "what is the possibility of East Bound and Down playing like that", but "what is the possibility of anything obscure occurring twice at the same time of day/week/month when it hardly occurs at all", the answer will be "with all the possibilities of something happening twice, even with things that don't happen often, the chances of at least one of them just happening to happen twice at the 'same time' is pretty good".
At any given time there is a one in 6,000 chance that the same song is playing on both. Period.
If it plays 15 four minute songs every hour that means it happens on average every 400 hours, or every 10 forty hour work weeks.
The odds of it being a rare song are longer but it probably happens at least once or twice a year.
at first this seems to have better odds than random.
but it is still most probably coincidence
even more likely is that OP knew there was a remake coming out and his subconscious had a listening flag for the song.
But if random?
I can be thinking of an old tv show and a particular episode and sure enough it shows up in a day or two. Mind power.
BTW I have Jerry Reeds song on my playlist on my cell phone which I play thru the car speakers.
When I wake up in the middle of the night, I try to guess what time it is, then I click on my phone.
Even though it’s dark and I have no visual indicators, I’m generally within ten minutes and frequently to the minute.
Only a select few could ever believe the truth.
I'm sure it did......You wanna really be freaked out? Play the song backwards and hear what it REALLY says..........I'm still bodaciously freaked out!
Obviously Archer.
No, it is not coincidence. If you are at all wired in, Apple knew that your wife died and you can be sure that there are algorithms to deal with that issue
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