Well last weekend I was on a diplomatic mission to Iowa to visit Mark's hometown. Small town America is awesome! Everyone in town knows the minute you get a chick preggers. So, were at this kid's house playing what might be the first game of Scat every played in Emmitsburg. There were 8 of us sitting around when we realized that we needed something from upstairs. We decided to Rock Paper Scissors for who had to go. I was still questioning how 8 person RPS even works, when the most remarkable throw occurred. Of the 8 of us, 7 threw scissors and the 8th kid threw paper and lost. It was like we planned it. Well I took stats and probability and I realized that the odds of that happening were 1 in 2187 (3^7).
But the real kickier came when 40 minutes later we had to run upstairs again. So again RPS was called into play and again the identical throw occurred with the 7 of us having the same throw and the same kid throwing the losing hand. The odds of this happening twice is a row is 1 in 4,782,969 I mean that should never happen. But what really defied the odds was that it was again with 7 scissors over 1 paper. The odds of what we witnessed happening again is a controlled setting are 1 in 14,348,907.
And you say there is no God?
1 comment:
What's funny is that the kid who lost before must have thought "It couldn't happen again if I throw paper".
Hi-larious.
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