Law of truly large numbers
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The law of truly large numbers (a statistical adage), attributed to Persi Diaconis and Frederick Mosteller, states that with a large enough number of samples, any highly implausible (i.e. unlikely in any single sample) result is likely to be observed.
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See also
- Black swan theory
- Boltzmann brain
- Bonferroni correction
- Coincidence
- Infinite monkey theorem
- Large numbers
- Law of large numbers
- Law of small numbers
- Library of Babel
- Littlewood's law
- Look-elsewhere effect
- Miracle
- Murphy's Law
- Psychic phenomena
- Totalitarian principle
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