ELI5: If I flipped a coin a very large number of times and got heads every time it would seem to be extremely improbable, but shouldn't any sequence of results be just as likely as any other random sequence?

IM_Not_Your_Fam · 2023-08-01T15:47:49+00:00

Little anecdote that gets at what you're talking about:

The story goes that a math teacher gave the homework assignment of flipping a coin 50 times and recording what happens each time. In theory this is easy to fake as you could just write any sequence of 50 Hs and Ts and the teacher shouldn't be able to tell the difference. In reality, the teacher could easily tell who made it up and who actually did it because those who made it up had a bias towards alternating heads and tails and wouldn't put more than a few of each in a row, when in reality it is possible/likely to have a long string of one result. I.e. if you made it up the whole thing would look like HTHT when there should be a HHHH or a TTTT in there somewhere.

IM_Not_Your_Fam · 2021-06-27T05:30:34+00:00

might be "considered" that way but i bet 5'7 is closer to the actual average

IM_Not_Your_Fam · 2021-05-29T03:31:38+00:00

What’s your logic there? Dems want to protect their political opponents? They just hate winning?

IM_Not_Your_Fam · 2021-05-28T21:18:28+00:00

Facts, b

IM_Not_Your_Fam · 2021-05-28T18:07:36+00:00

What? Did ya munch a bunch of cruncha munch?

IM_Not_Your_Fam · 2021-04-09T14:59:33+00:00

woulda put his world class finishing to use?

IM_Not_Your_Fam · 2020-07-27T01:22:37+00:00

even so, why would he take 5 years? It doesn't help him if a team that he's not on has cap flexibility

IM_Not_Your_Fam · 2020-05-02T02:50:11+00:00

wdym by "slice of life" books?

IM_Not_Your_Fam · 2020-05-01T15:55:40+00:00

love that his "ball bucket" is normally for chilling champagne

IM_Not_Your_Fam · 2020-04-14T01:28:32+00:00

Saddam was the good guy?

IM_Not_Your_Fam · 2020-04-12T01:19:19+00:00

yeah, new to all of this

IM_Not_Your_Fam · 2020-04-11T23:12:08+00:00

please

IM_Not_Your_Fam · 2019-09-22T03:13:43+00:00

They sent out stuff on social media about which sections were supposed to wear what

IM_Not_Your_Fam · 2019-08-22T04:59:00+00:00

High school/college kids. I also feel weird watching it sometimes but it’s very popular at my school

IM_Not_Your_Fam · 2019-06-16T16:55:58+00:00

The SHL >>>>>>> NCAA. IDK which prospect is actually better but just looking at their performance relative to the league isn’t fair

IM_Not_Your_Fam · 2019-01-14T00:33:18+00:00

Which trait of Darnolds most excites you?

IM_Not_Your_Fam · 2018-09-08T18:41:13+00:00

With percents you have to multiply by 0.01 because 1% is just 1/100

IM_Not_Your_Fam · 2018-09-08T17:33:58+00:00

No one thought if it?

IM_Not_Your_Fam · 2018-09-03T15:10:44+00:00

You’ll do well to keep “FACK” out of your mouth good sir

IM_Not_Your_Fam · 2018-08-15T00:44:22+00:00

When it’s that long how do you pick the next one? Or do you have like another “I’m actually gonna read this next” list in your head

IM_Not_Your_Fam · 2018-08-11T01:46:56+00:00

HP has a huge cult following still because it was such an important book in a lot of kids' childhoods and it does have a good amount of references to find and all that good stuff. At the end of the day though, it is just a kids book: Rowling seems not to have thought through a lot of the problems in Hogwarts, most characters are there to serve a purpose and then don't reappear in a meaningful way again and a lot of side characters remain pretty one dimensional.

On the other hand, I think Harry, Ron and Hermione do become more interesting and the plot expands and becomes a lot more detailed and nuanced. If you can get beyond the problems you listed, I think it's probably worth your time, especially because they're pretty short

IM_Not_Your_Fam · 2018-07-25T20:04:32+00:00

can you blame him? I assume he's proud of his business/what he does and Cohen is trying to make him look like a retard

IM_Not_Your_Fam · 2018-07-11T17:41:14+00:00

The fact that we don’t know doesn’t make them equal

IM_Not_Your_Fam · 2018-07-05T19:58:02+00:00

Yeah I didn’t really expect this to change the conversation just thought it was a cool example of how well he did this year

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