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The Skeptic's Horoscope: Aries

November 12, 2014

Aries is told its lucky numbers are statistically indistinguishable from its unlucky ones.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2014-11-12-the-skeptic-s-horoscope--aries/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

Aries: "Today, your lucky numbers are statistically indistinguishable from your unlucky ones. Sorry about that."

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Probability › RandomnessStatistics › Statistical Significance
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