Comments on: Video: How to explain remarkable coincidences

By: Vincent

Vincent — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:42:23 +0000

Great video. I always try to think rationally when something peculiar happens but it is not always easy! I’ve started to think about probability in every day life, I think it helps greatly in understanding everything.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:23:22 +0000

not just a general dream about something crashing into a building…. sure.. this must be a really scary and exciting experience to have… but you get so emotionally caught up in it that you forget to look at the bigger picture….

over 6 billion people in the world…….it is statistically likely that SOMEONE in the world that night would have a dream about a building being crashed into….. no? …

By: Carrie

Carrie — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:21:12 +0000

not just a building in general or any of the other hundreds of similarly physiqued buildings that exist in your memory

and that it MUST have been a plane, not a missile or a bird or any other possible inanimate object…

so therefore you conclude that it was too much of a coincedence to have had this dream and then the next day have a similar real life occurance happen… so it MUST have been a premonition…

By: Carrie

Carrie — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:19:58 +0000

*face palm* @ rachel
guess you didn’t get the point of the video then?… in a world with population over 6 billion.. it is statistically likely that a number of people will experience some bizarre and higly unlikely -but probable- coincidences in their life time …. say someone having a dream about a plane crashing into a large building and then the next day waddya know… the word trade centre has been struck… it is just nature for your mind to look for connections… especially in such an emortionally charged event….peope can’t accept a simple explantion so they look for something deeper and waddya know… “conspiracies” are formed. even though not specifcally defined in your dream, you assume the building that you dreamt of MUST have been the world trade centre,

By: Rachael A

Rachael A — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:46:03 +0000

I don’t know if anyone has replied in between as these comments have to be looked at. However that feelilng some people get on the back of their necks when something ain’t right .. it happens for some not others – it’s a sixth sense but nobody can explain here. Also dreams have been explained but not in great detail really. There are also crop circles (as in the genuine kind) which can’t be explained and … premonitions which may I add I have had three or four. One Paddington train disaster where it was so real I could do a step by step story about it another about a parachute not working and a skydiver dying (hence being diabetic I have never skydived) and others involving World trade disaster. I am a skeptic but also so much has happened that I cannot ignore mystery yet wonder why.

By: Rachael A

Rachael A — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:34:20 +0000

I have had hairs go up on my neck when I sensed someone behind me and yes you could call it paranoia but then I froze imagining a man with a knife then something inside my mind told me to run… so then my body just sprang into action and I ran faster than anyone could ~(yes adrenaline I know). I was 14 and wanting to escape from home but when I did I came across this feeling I explained yet I saw nothing or heard nothing. When I got home my mother thought it was her I said no a man followed me. Ok I could take into account probability I was emotionally detached, in sane whatever .. and the chances of someone being there in a remote area were slim. However the next day on the news a girl got attacked same place that I was standing the previous night and a warning went out to everyone.

By: Rachael Alderson

Rachael Alderson — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:25:03 +0000

I ‘d like to think of myself of someone with a rational mind and this discussion of probability has come up on another thread I commented on.. Did you know there was a movie about 23? Do you think media etc is connected to making us believe something we shouldn’t. Is it part of one word order i ask maybe? There were many docs destroyed about history by the church and politicians which leaves a mystery and a mystery which the majority of us still care to find out about. You could count probability all day long but let’s be honest.. when you are sitting at the traffic lights and the turn to green and you go you don’t stop there thinking about probabilities of who will jump the red light you go by instinct trusting no sod will hit you don’t you?

By: AllanW

AllanW — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:56:27 +0000

Nice anecdote Helen. My favourite? Statistics lecturer to class; ‘What is the likelihood that the next person to walk into this room with have MORE THAN the statistical average number of legs?’ Too quickly we decided it was unlikely.’Wrong; it is virtually certain.’ came the reply. ‘The statistical average is fractionally less than two as a result of missing limbs and no-one having more than two so the chances are that a two-legged person will walk in and they wwill have therefore more than the average.’

By: inatrice

inatrice — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:53:07 +0000

Great video, but am I the only one who finds the guys voice boring?
Now if Derren was to put the same info across, that would much more entertaining!

Oh and Raoul you’ve got it wrong! – just in case you hadn’t figured that out from the other comments!

Have Fun!

By: Keef

Keef — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:30:50 +0000

@Raoul – no you missed the point of the birthday thing. It’s not finding someone that has the same birthday as YOU, it’s finding 2 people in the room that share the same birthday as each other. You may not share the same birthday as Fred, nor do you share the same birthday with Carl or with Frank, but Frank and Carl might share the same brithday, or Fred and Carl or Fred and Frank etc. etc. When you have 23 people in a room it’s more likely than not that 2 people in the room will share the same birthday as each other but to us it seems highly improbable.