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Beltiras
3284 days ago
Droids are apparently bad at estimating outside odds since the two instances we see in the movie end with an unlikely outcome given the estimate.
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rflrob
3284 days ago
Or C3PO is just a stodgy old frequentist:
https://www.countbayesie.com/blog/2015/2/18/hans-solo-and-ba...
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devrandomguy
3284 days ago
And humans see patterns in a sample size of two ;)
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Beltiras
3284 days ago
Maybe it will rain today. Maybe it won't. 50/50.
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tripzilch
3283 days ago
"Even though the chance of rain was higher than predicted, it wasn't quite so high that it actually rained that day"
(translated from a cartoon by Dutch absurdist/cartoonist "Gummbah")
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fineline
3283 days ago
They said on the forecast yesterday there was a 50% chance of rain today, and looking outside I can see they got it right. Uncanny.
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takingflac
3284 days ago
You forgot to add in all those tie fighters chasing them that also tried to make it through an asteroid field.
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talmand
3284 days ago
Plus the bridge of one star destroyer which we've also seen as potentially disastrous for the ship.
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MR4D
3284 days ago
Survivorship Bias.
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adrianN
3284 days ago
Publication bias.
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Bartweiss
3284 days ago
When it's people, I think that's the anthropic principle. (And the file drawer is a much messier place to end up...)
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InclinedPlane
3283 days ago
Han Solo is just force sensitive, that's all.
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