[thechat] India marvels at 'miracle chapati'
Madhu Menon
webguru at vsnl.net
Fri Nov 22 00:33:00 CST 2002
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2484195.stm
Another example of how most people don't understand the probability of "one
in a million" type of events happening.
Given a large enough sample (the millions of chapatis made every day in
India), it's only a matter of time before a chapati has a burn that looks
like Jesus, Ganesha, or [insert favourite god here].
Notice how the chapati is basically two squares and a rectangle in another
rectangle surrounded by a mass of brown. The human mind, ever looking for
meaningful patterns, happily supplies the rest.
In a country of one billion people, "one in a million" probability events
happen about thousand times every day.
Regards,
Madhu
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