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Created: June 26, 2003
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Coincidence and the Law of Large Numbers

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This essay is based on Chapters 3 and 4 of Everyday Statistical Reasoning: Possibilities and Pitfalls, by Timoth J. Lawson, Wadsworth// Thomas Learning, 2002. pp. 25 - 58.

describe the puffin and the penguin and the fact that their DNA shows no relationship. This is an "amazing coincidence, as Lawson would probably call it.

describe the elements of qualitative and quantitative reasoning that are running wild in Lawson's analysis.

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