Comments on: What Are the Odds Two People in the Room Have the Same Birthday? http://pedanticposts.com/what-are-the-odds-two-people-in-the-room-have-the-same-birthday/ Thu, 31 Mar 2016 05:27:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 By: Erin http://pedanticposts.com/what-are-the-odds-two-people-in-the-room-have-the-same-birthday/#comment-90 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:44:50 +0000 http://pedanticposts.com/?p=751#comment-90 That is so cool… Thanks… I thought it would be a pretty rare situation…. I never believed in signs…but starting to rethink that…lol…

]]> By: Skinner http://pedanticposts.com/what-are-the-odds-two-people-in-the-room-have-the-same-birthday/#comment-89 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:09:29 +0000 http://pedanticposts.com/?p=751#comment-89 It would take a PhD is Statistics to figure that out! But maybe I can help a little?

The website howmanyofme.com tells me that there are 230,957 Erins in the US. That is 1 in 1330 people. The odds that a given Erin has your birthday is roughly 1 in 365. I don’t know what state you are from, but if we assume all states have the same number of people, the odds this other Erin is from another state is 49 out of 50. So one in a half million people in the US will be named Erin, have your birthday, and be from out of state!

What are the odds that one of these people would work at the same plant and have automatic chemistry? I am stunned!

]]> By: Erin http://pedanticposts.com/what-are-the-odds-two-people-in-the-room-have-the-same-birthday/#comment-88 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:52:44 +0000 http://pedanticposts.com/?p=751#comment-88 What are the odds that two people from different states, would end up working for the same company, end up in the same plant, share the same birthday, and share the same first name. On top of all this, before we knew anything else, other than first name…Had automatic chemistry? Is this a soulmate…Stumped and stunned?

]]> By: Lara http://pedanticposts.com/what-are-the-odds-two-people-in-the-room-have-the-same-birthday/#comment-87 Sun, 10 Oct 2010 05:20:29 +0000 http://pedanticposts.com/?p=751#comment-87 Lindberg is your soulmate!

]]> By: BLindy http://pedanticposts.com/what-are-the-odds-two-people-in-the-room-have-the-same-birthday/#comment-86 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:18:32 +0000 http://pedanticposts.com/?p=751#comment-86 Oh I see what you did there. Nice. I’m used to doing this every week: http://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/2010/09/03/its-the-friday-puzzle-75/

You gotta think outside the box. find the trick. do all the mental calisthenics. it can get frustrating…

]]> By: Skinner http://pedanticposts.com/what-are-the-odds-two-people-in-the-room-have-the-same-birthday/#comment-85 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:11:21 +0000 http://pedanticposts.com/?p=751#comment-85 No, you are not missing anything – I set it up on the tee for you and you knocked it out of the park! In this part of the hypothetical conversation I setup, the goal wasn’t to stump you or make you do mental math – I want you to feel smart or at least involved in the conversation.

]]> By: BLindy http://pedanticposts.com/what-are-the-odds-two-people-in-the-room-have-the-same-birthday/#comment-84 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:36:27 +0000 http://pedanticposts.com/?p=751#comment-84 If you have the same half bday, doesn’t that just mean you have the same bday too? So that’s just the same as everything you were just saying. Am I missing something?

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