Math study indicates probabilities of conspiracies being revealed

[Monte Davis]

Yeah -- that so-called "normal" Gaussian curve that shows up everywhere,
I'm supposed to believe that just HAPPENS? Pull the other one.

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 6:36 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is kinda interesting for P-readers - a mathematician has claimed
> to have worked out the statistical probability of a conspiracy being
> blown by one of its members. Part of the equation is essentially the
> inherent vice of conspiracies ("the intrinsic probability of a
> conspiracy failing") which he works out by examining real conspiracies
> such as PRISM and the Tuskegee experiments.
>
> But, of course, all of this distracts us from the fact that statistics
> are all a conspiracy, man!
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35411684)
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> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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