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To: discostu

“1 in 64 isn’t a miracle, it’s clustering.”

Misuse of the science. It can only be clustering if every flip was with the same coin in sequence as you suggested the 1K coin test.


82 posted on 02/02/2016 2:42:42 PM PST by apostoli (13 Hours will determine the next 8 years!)
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To: apostoli

No, it’s still clustering. Clustering is random results bucking the statistical expectations. You expect somebody predicting coin tosses (including of multiple coins) to get the right answer 50% of the time. By getting it right 6 times in a row they bucked statistical expectations, but small sample sizes have a tend to buck statistical expectations, and some people read too much into it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustering_illusion


87 posted on 02/02/2016 3:24:59 PM PST by discostu (This is a different kind of flying... all together.)
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