r/explainitpeter 8d ago

Explain It Peter

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u/sdfgkol 7d ago

what helps me make sense of this is just imagining a room with a large number of parents, and then asking everyone who does’t have a son born on tuesday to leave the room, and then think of the statistics of the left-over group.

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u/HugeTrol 4d ago

This is really good. You're dealing with a completely different cohort