Thursday, September 02, 2004

"Ya Might Rabbit, Ya Might"

I’ve mentioned the line that serves as the title to this post, in an earlier entry here, but I cannot recall, at this moment, what entry.  It’s from an old Bugs Bunny cartoon.  It came to mind again this evening when I read a piece at Scientific American.com titled “Miracle on Probability Street."

The piece is both a review of the book Debunked, and a condensed primer on the Law of Large Numbers.  It makes for a short, interesting read on miracles and the probability of one happening to you.  An interesting sentence from the piece.

"Events with million-to-one odds happen 295 times a day in America."

Now, where can I place a bet on one of these 295 occurences?

Via Arts & Letters Daily.

Posted by John Venlet on 09/02 at 04:07 PM
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