North Carolina’s Michael Phillips revealed that he had a 0.38in member in bid to reduce stigma of the condition

    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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      3 hours ago

      Adding one more person adds more than one comparison. Assuming birthdays are evenly distributed (they aren’t), 2 people have a 1/365.25 chance of sharing a birthday. But adding a third person adds 2 more chances. Adding that 23rd person adds 22 more chances than adding the 22nd person. 1+2+3…+22=253 separate checks, of which only one needs to match.

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        3 hours ago

        So does this apply to the problem: 0.6% of people have micropenis. How many friends do you need to have before you’ll know someone?

        It doesn’t seem to, because there isn’t any element of comparing them between each other. It’s just a straight percentage chance.

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          3 hours ago

          No I was making a joke and everyone decided they were gonna do a full autism about it

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        3 hours ago

        I think the point is not how quickly can someone Google it but can he actually explain it, because he brought it up in a situation where it doesn’t apply, meaning he doesn’t actually understand it (ie can’t explain it).

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          54 minutes ago

          Canconda’s original comment did not have the wiki link which is why I replied. Honestly, dropping 23 possible birthday pairs to reach >50% probability is still not intuitive to me.

          Of my OG friend group of ~12 there are two matching birthday pairs. One coincidental and one pair of twins which don’t count.

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          3 hours ago

          I can’t because probability is bullshit lol.

          Damn you guys have no sense of humour.

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            3 hours ago

            If that was your idea of a joke, I’m afraid you have no idea what’s funny. More likely you are just attempting to laugh off your embarrassment.