nature of chance

[amhartley]

(spun off from thread "Statistical Scandals")

For me if some tings happens by chance is when something unlikely happens, like when i met my cousins in Denmark (I live in Sweden). For me that was a chance meeting. When talking about statistics I'm using chance in the meaning of random event. As in if you pick 5 cards from a deck there is a chance you get a straight. Or like in the length measuring mentioned earlier you have a chance to pick slightly longer(or shorter) than average persons to measure.
/Hans

Hans, do you mean that one gets a straight for no reason, that it just happens by itself? Or that we just can't predict when or if you'll get a straight?

 

[Grundar]

You get the straight because thats how the they are arranged in the deck but you can't predict when it hapends (assuming an honest shuffle i have seen what a magician can do with a deck of cards).

/Hans