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To: zeestephen
The review or whatever it is above isn't worded correctly. It should have been:

"When the chances of an individual having any one of the five characteristics is two out of three...(in the applicable distribution)...then the chances of having all five is two-thirds raised to the fifth power or about one in eight".

24 posted on 04/28/2018 4:23:02 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: steve86

(2/3)^5 = 0.13168724279

(1/8) = 0.125


41 posted on 04/29/2018 6:42:43 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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