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Statistics and probabilities are incredibly unintuitive to people. That’s why it’s called The Birthday Paradox and not the birthday obvious result

> The birthday paradox is that, counterintuitively, the probability of a shared birthday exceeds 50% in a group of only 23 people.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

parent Swizec 4 years ago

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