Statistics
Cool to have sometimes, perhaps, but in reality they're so meaningless. For starters, even if they were true they wouldn't be much use. What good is it to calculate the chance of a traffic light being green when you arrive
at it, making you feel good knowing it should have been another colour when it isn't?
"Yeah, it may be green now, but it was a 68,7% chance it would be red."
So good to know you've beaten the imaginary odds. Reality doesn't care what the chances are for something,
if it happens it does, no matter how many numbers you put up against it. You can count as much as you want, still there's always a chance that one day when you arrivw at the traffic light, it will
turn blue. It may seem unlikely, but the next new deck of cards you open might, just might, be one containing all kings of spades. You can't deny the chance of someone doing something devious to a traffic light
03:06 am. Neither can you be sure no-one at "Decks-R-us" had the time of his life messing up the packaging machinery.
You can't foresee the unforeseen, you can always beat the odds ... Makes you feel good, doesn't it?
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