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“If the odds of getting 10 in a row of heads or tails can be computed by multiplying .5 to the 9th power and gives us 1 in 500, then how can the z score for the same thing be 1 in 100?”

Since torah613 decided to patronize me, let me provide the answer. Not 42. I refer to popas first post in the thread. “Popa knows statistics. He can run a Z score, and a T score, and all the clever things he can do to convince you of things that aren’t true.”

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