The Law of Truly Large Numbers

The Law of Truly Large Numbers
With a large enough sample, any outrageous thing is likely to happen. The point is that truly rare events, say events that occur only once in a million [as the mathematician Littlewood (1953) required for an event to be surprising] are bound to be plentiful in a population of 250 million people. If a coincidence occurs to one person in a million each day, then we expect 250 occurrences a day and close to 100,000 such occurrences a year.

Going from a year to a lifetime and from the population of the United States to that of the world (5 billion at this writing), we can be absolutely sure that we will see incredibly remarkable events. When such events occur, they are often noted and recorded. If they happen to us or someone we know, it is hard to escape that spooky feeling.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/methods-for-studying-coincidences/


27 June 2011

Added, Dropped, Traded

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Trends 
Most Added Players
1. J. Weeks
2. T. Wigginton
3. J. Lannan
4. B. Beachy
5. R. Bernadina		6. S. Smith
7. J. Marquis
8. N. Blackburn
9. F. Garcia
10. C. Luebke
Most Dropped Players
1. C. Morton
2. T. Wood
3. I. Davis
4. J. Collmenter
5. F. Carmona		6. D. Gordon
7. J. Nicasio
8. J. Arrieta
9. R. Oswalt
10. B. Matusz
Most Viewed Players
1. L. Chisenhall
2. C. Pena
3. B. Zito
4. A. Ramirez
5. M. Harrison		6. P. Sandoval
7. D. Freese
8. C. Gonzalez
9. T. Wigginton
10. M. Leake
Most Traded Players
1. T. Lincecum
2. A. Pujols
3. H. Ramirez
4. A. Dunn
5. R. Howard		6. C. Carpenter
7. A. Ethier
8. M. Pineda
9. E. Longoria
10. R. Halladay



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June 28, 2011 at 8:04 AM

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