RE: The Birthday Paradox and Our Awful Human Intuitions When It Comes to Probabilities and Exponents

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The Birthday Paradox and Our Awful Human Intuitions When It Comes to Probabilities and Exponents

in math •  7 years ago 

I had two people in mind at the 50% one. I mean, there's a 50% chance they both share the same birthday...

At least, now that I think about it, that's complete bogus...

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      ·  7 years ago 

    Yeah, the chance of two random people sharing a birthday is under 0.3%.

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