Richard Dawkins: Why Coincidences Are Meaningless
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Experiment demonstrating the triviality of coincidence.
Part of Richard Dawkins Growing Up In The Universe series.
Part of Richard Dawkins Growing Up In The Universe series.
Oct 8, 2012 11:29 AM
Re: Richard Dawkins: Why Coincidences Are Meaningless
Being a man of science I pretty much agree with anything I see of Dawkins, however this whole video all I that was repeating in my head was 'A psychic would predict or see, not will the coin into a state' a very poor concept to illustrate the phenomenon of 'chance'.
By: Violaetor
Re: Richard Dawkins: Why Coincidences Are Meaningless
It's the only way to guarantee that you're left with one person standing. Otherwise, when you get near the end, there's a good chance that the last few people will all make the same prediction, and get it wrong. It would spoil the demonstration.
By: quisph
Re: Richard Dawkins: Why Coincidences Are Meaningless
Well, demonstrating the wrong thing spoils the demonstration.
If anyone is surprised that the probability of chosing a person by chosing a person is 1, this demonstration had its use. I doubt it.
If anyone is surprised that the probability of chosing a person by chosing a person is 1, this demonstration had its use. I doubt it.
By: bugmenot
Re: Richard Dawkins: Why Coincidences Are Meaningless
The demonstration was meant to show that one person could appear to have remarkable success at willing a certain outcome, when it is really just a coincidence. Dawkins never said it was about making predictions. That was what the first comment here said, and it's a very limited view of the kinds of claims that psychics make.
By: quisph
