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To: onedoug
What bothers me is the statistical irregularity of two such incidents within the Gulf occurring within such a short periodicity.

The world is filled with meaningless statistical fluctuations; the human brain is evolutionarily designed to find patterns; overall, it's something that greatly contributes to our survival, but a side-effect is that we're really good at seeing patterns that don't exist.

If, on average, 6 events (pick anything) happen in a year, they're not going to be spaced 2 months apart. You're going to go 4-5 months without any at some point, then you'll have 2 in a month - for no reason whatsoever. Without an understanding of statistics and probability (which I think needs to be taught in high schools) people don't really understand how "normal" an irregular pattern of events are.

Among the dumbest cliches I see repeated here and elsewhere on assorte boards is "I don't believe in coincidences." The world is FILLED with absolutely MEANINGLESS coincidences, day after day.

504 posted on 09/02/2010 7:34:03 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Strategerist

Flip a coin 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000 times and see where your curve deviates from 50%.

From the most fundamental subatomic entity to the universe at large, everything is statistical, including the existence of God Himself.

At least, from the human perspective, that´s the most efficient way to evaluate existence.


506 posted on 09/03/2010 9:47:29 AM PDT by onedoug
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