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The Skeptics Guide #904 - Nov 5 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Lottery Fallacy

The odds of two numbers coming up in the same day are one in 157. This is a daily seven days a week, twice a day lottery. So it's literally 365 opportunities for this to happen every year. We tend to see a lot of coincidences because we are retrofitting. Like we're deciding what the pattern is after we see it. The lottery fallacy. That was another trick.

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