Controversial BeliefsSome mugs still think the MMR injection gives children autism (it doesn't), while others are of the belief that we're ruled by billionaire lizard people. Tell us about views outside the mainstream which people go glassy eyed if you bang on about them (Your grandad's a racist - no need to tell us, thanks)
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 25 Apr 2013, 12:06)
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What, exactly, is the law of averages meant to be?I have a mate who will try to invoke it to win an argument, but when I ask him to explain it, he never does it satisfactorily. From what I can ascertain it seems to be the same thing as the gamblers fallacy.
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The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Mon 29 Apr 2013, 14:49,
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it's a layman's phrase that means that if something has a chance of occuring, given enough repetitions of the same event, it will occurit is often used in the derogatory sense "David cameron is bound to be right sometimes, law of averages, mate"
in such, it is not a fallacy but a summary of a widely understood phenomenon in statistical probablities
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 29 Apr 2013, 15:10,
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BORING.(
Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 29 Apr 2013, 15:21,
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Given enough repetitions of the same random, non-deterministic event which cannot logically be assigned to a systematic cause.Which is still a pretty good summary of Cameron's policies.
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The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Mon 29 Apr 2013, 21:45,
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Nah. It only works if you end it with "mate".(
edjogs Collared doves are shit., Tue 30 Apr 2013, 10:28,
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