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berniew1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 03:01 PM
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24. I'm statistician. Either an extremely unlikely event occurred or rigging
I'm a statistician and can confirm the following:
If you have 10 independent events with answer Y or N ,each with probability = 1/2, then the probability that all 10 are Y is 1/2 to the 10th power which is essentially near zero.

So if you have 10 (or etc.) events that are independent, the probability that they will all be Y (or N) or (B or K) is near zero.

If such an event happened, then either an extremely improbable occurance has happened or the events weren't independent (there was a connection or rigging between the events).

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