Do celebrities die in threes?

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10 pointsmuerdeme4 comments

I wonder if that will convince my wife. Probably not.

Her stats superstitions drive me crazy. Ever heard of the Chinese birth calendar? For example: http://www.webwomb.com/chinesechart.htm.

90%+ accuracy should be an easy claim to bust. Unfortunately for me it's been right for our kids 2 out of 2 times. Why are stats always so hard to sell over anecdotal experience?

I think it's because stats is usually not personal. When you actually know someone whom, say, homeopathy helped - now that's a good reason to believe.

Hey dude. I suspect this is a total breach of hacker news conduct to contact you, but I just responded to this Chinese birth calendar thing if you're interested. If you want me to take down any mention of you, let me know!

http://kldivergence.blogspot.com/2010/04/other-day-someone-t...

Well the Death List 2010 (http://deathlist.net/) is only up to 2. They'll be hoping for some clumps (statistical or not) to beat their 2008 record of 12 (http://deathlist.net/?y=2008)

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