Mundane or miraculous events?

8 months ago
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Shuffle a pack of cards and look at the resulting sequence of 52 cards. No matter what it is, it's a truly miraculous event - it's one that would be almost impossible to ever replicate. But on the other hand winning the lottery jackpot twice within a few years is actually not at all unusual. These concepts are counter-intuitive. This 7 minute video (extract from my introductory lecture on Probability and Risk) explains these concepts

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