Almost Half of Warren Buffett-led Berkshire Hathaway’s $365 Billion Portfolio Is Invested in Only 1 Stock::This tech giant has made for a wonderful investment in recent years.

  • @grayman
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    111 months ago

    So you think it’s most likely random chance that this guy that’s literally a 1 in a 100M for wealth got rich?

    • @CoggyMcFee
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      211 months ago

      If something has a 1 in 100M chance of happening to someone, you’d expect that about 80 people in the world now have had that thing happen to them.

      • @surewhynotlem
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        611 months ago

        Don’t mistake statistics for reality. Statistics describe reality, they don’t dictate it.

        In this situation, there could be a 1:100M chance for any random investor to be this successful. Or there could be a 1:3 chance but you need to meet specific criteria, which he and only a few others have.

        You can’t describe a situation with dice rolls unless you’re very sure what kind of dice you’re rolling.

        • @CoggyMcFee
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          11 months ago

          I was responding to purely hypothetical odds that someone just made up, in which case things can be as complicated or simple as one wants them to be.

          But even if I were making an actual prediction based on real statistical data, I am not sure why you would think that having an expectation of the approximate distribution of something given what we know about its statistical likelihood is “mistaking statistics for actual reality”.

    • @Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In
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      111 months ago

      One guy has to be the world’s luckiest investor. It just so happens this guy is called Warren.