Probablity and statistics as it applies in real life?

Question

If you meet your future wife in a park, is it coincidence or fate?

Do you think the 7 NBA game series is not enough to really determine the better team?

Do you think home run records are flukes or luck?

Answer 1

flukes OR luck?  dont you mean luck or skill...

like when you attract a girl that everyone thinks is too hot for you.  it must be skill or fate or shes desperate which.

example:  she probably wants you or youre lucky she wants you.  see the diff.

further more, is a strikeout bad luck?

Answer 2

Probability and statistics don't really relate to your examples.

Probability is the chance of a particular event occurring at a given time based on known variables. Basically it involves predicting the likelihood of future events.

Statistics is more about finding usable patterns from collected data.

The two are related by the fact you can use collected statistics to predict the likelihood of future events based on the frequency of past events.

As for your question. Statistics and probability have nothing to do with fate or coincidence. However, I'm sure you could come up with a probability of finding a future wife in the park if you knew all the relevant variables. But in the case of a one time event like this, probability isn't very useful because there are constantly changing randomizing choices that would throw off any calculation.

A 7 game play off series is more than enough to determine the better team. But a 9 game series would be better, and an 11 game series would be even better. But would there be any additional benefit from a 9 or 11 game series?

Home run records - as well as any record related to long term performance - are a measure of consistency and are therefore not flukes or luck. In order for a person to break a single season or career record, they must maintain a level of performance over a long period of time.

A fluke is something like an unassisted triple play which requires the intersection of a number of variables at a specific time and place. And even if those exact same variables came together at the right place and time again, it might not yield the same results.

Answer 3

If you meet your future wife in a park it's neither coincidence nor fate (I don't believe in fate). If you meet your current wife by CHANCE in a park then that's a coincidence!. What you've effectively said is:

"Two strangers meet in a park". Nothing coincidental about that!.

As for the sports stuff I aint got a clue me old mate.

Answer 4

1) it depends whether you start an interest with her then or if you just pass her by. if the former, then its fate. but if you just walk past her, its coincidence.

2) 7 game series should be enough to determine which team is better at beating the other. obviously a team with a certain playing style are more effective against some teams than others. so really the style that is most desirable is the one that counteracts the most popluar style with the other teams, this means you will be able to beat most teams if you have average players. so in a 7 game series against one team, if thier playing style is more effective against yours than yours is against them they will win, even if you have better players.

3) home runs do involve some luck, but also a lot of skill. even the luckiest regular guy on the street couldn't go and hit a home run off the best pitchers in the world, unless he was very skilled at baseball

hope you enjoy reading my answers to your questions.

Answer 5

First of all there is no probability in the NBA it is like the WWE, fake and the outcome is predetermined.