OT: Home Sick for the Holidays, or Probability and Yahtzee

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December 27th, 2003, 05:15 PM

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Re: OT: Home Sick for the Holidays, or Probability and Yahtzee

It's not luck David, but probability you have demonstrated there. Your sample is too small to be meaningfull. If you and your friend rolled 100 times, or a thousand, or ten thousand, the scores would get much closer together. Eventually within percentage points of one another. On the other hand if you and your friend sat down and rolled 10 times each again he would be just as likely to have a better score then you the second time around.

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