Wednesday, 10 June 2009

It 'could' just be coincidence

The word "coincidence" is thrown around a lot more today than people seem to realize.

A poor understanding of probability leads many people to put forward supernatural explanation for events that are far more common than they think.

This video attempts to prove that by showing how probability theory is sufficient to explain even the most seemingly remarkable and unexplainable "coincidences". I think it does it rather well.

Everyone should make room for logic like this.



If anyone is interested, here is a link to the narrators channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/QualiaSoup

A lot of his videos are popular misconception and logic breakdowns (from an atheists point of view, scores points with me)