“ If you meet someone randomly, there is a one in 365.25 chance of your sharing their birthday. Now let us look at a situation where there are 23 people in a room. What is the chance of there being 2 people with the same birthday? About 50%.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb [Fooled By Randomness, p159], on people underestimating probablity and the Birthday Paradox (which isn’t really a paradox in the normal sense).
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