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« on: July 10, 2009, 11:29:25 PM »

Either it happens or it does not happen.
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« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2009, 12:21:44 AM »

Either it happens or it does not happen.

That would suggest everything in life is 100:0 or 0:100, not 50:50. That wouldn't even average to 50:50 because the 0:100 events far outweigh the 100:0 events.
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« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2009, 02:24:45 AM »

Either it happens or it does not happen.

That would suggest everything in life is 100:0 or 0:100, not 50:50. That wouldn't even average to 50:50 because the 0:100 events far outweigh the 100:0 events.

And if you subscribe to the whole multiverse thing, then for everything that happens there are an infinity other things that could happen but did not. So it averages out to almost 0:100.

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« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2009, 12:30:37 AM »

Reminds me of that guy on The Daily Show who said there was a 50/50 chance that the LHC would destroy us all.
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« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2009, 04:50:40 AM »

lol.

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« Reply #5 on: July 17, 2009, 12:23:22 PM »

Either it happens or it does not happen.

That would suggest everything in life is 100:0 or 0:100, not 50:50. That wouldn't even average to 50:50 because the 0:100 events far outweigh the 100:0 events.

I was on Canal St. in NYC yesterday with my friend when we run into his ex-girlfriend walking down the same side of the sidewalk.  after the ordeal had passed, he asked me, "what are the odds of that?", to which I replied, "100%."
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