schrodingers_man: (Hope you guess my name)
Yomiel ([personal profile] schrodingers_man) wrote in [community profile] alphacomplex 2014-11-10 03:52 am (UTC)

You've got it right and wrong. Probability's tricky like that. Every single one of us has a one in four chance of having been picked as a Communist. But I named a sample of six people. Eight if you count Greed and Kimbley. Picking between just two people, you're not much more likely to get a hit than if you're looking at just one, but between six or eight people, there's a much higher chance that one of those hit that one in four chance. Every lottery ticket has the same chance of being a winner, but if you buy more, there's a higher chance one of your tickets will win, right? It's like that.

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