Ok, this one's actually kind of fun, if you really go for it:

I would like all my LJ friends to comment about how you got to know me. But I want you to LIE. That's right. Just make it up. If you'd like, copy this to your journal so I can do the same.

Of the World Series tournaments that went to seven games, 62% were won by the team who *lost* the first game.

I had an idea, but I didn't compute exactly the hypothetical parameter and test it. But in principle, this trend could be expected in a sequence of unfair coin tosses, but it looks like the coin would have to be highly unfair, and then the ( Read more... )