@[email protected] to Casual Conversation @lemm.eeEnglish • 8 months agoYou are compared with 99 other people chosen randomly. If you are better than everyone else in a specific domain, you win 1 million €/$. What do you choose?message-square85fedilinkarrow-up165arrow-down15
arrow-up160arrow-down1message-squareYou are compared with 99 other people chosen randomly. If you are better than everyone else in a specific domain, you win 1 million €/$. What do you choose?@[email protected] to Casual Conversation @lemm.eeEnglish • 8 months agomessage-square85fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish13•8 months agoEven if they had an identical twin, what are the odds of their twin being in the pool of 99 other randomly chosen people?
minus-square@superduperpiratelinkEnglish7•8 months agoHaha good point, i hadn’t considered the odds of 99 out of 8 billion including an identical twin
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•8 months agoA quick approximation with a desktop calculator says 0.000001%
Even if they had an identical twin, what are the odds of their twin being in the pool of 99 other randomly chosen people?
Haha good point, i hadn’t considered the odds of 99 out of 8 billion including an identical twin
A quick approximation with a desktop calculator says 0.000001%