January 21, 2007

Coincidence, correlation and chance

Andrew Stickland writes entertainingly about coincidence, correlation, chance and the downsides of human's ability to see patterns. Well spotted, Jon Howard. Like Jon, I enjoyed Andrew's ingenious idea for an email scam around predicting football results...

Posted by Johnnie Moore at 13:11 in Miscellaneous (everything is)
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Jack Yan says

Good stuff, Johnnie. A nice way to think about maths, something I generally avoid doing!

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