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Karma or Coincidence?
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Karma or Coincidence?

Steve Patterson
Sep 29, 2016
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Statistical anomalies: are they divine, or merely coincidental? One-in-a-million events are consistent with two mutually exclusive theories - so how to choose between them?

Questions like this throw us inescapably into the world of philosophy and theoretical reasoning. 

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