One guy has to be the world’s luckiest investor. It just so happens this guy is called Warren.
So you think it’s most likely random chance that this guy that’s literally a 1 in a 100M for wealth got rich?
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 6 months ago
CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 6 months ago
If something has a 1 in 100M chance of happening to someone, you’d expect that about 80 people in the world now have had that thing happen to them.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Don’t mistake statistics for reality. Statistics describe reality, they don’t dictate it.
In this situation, there could be a 1:100M chance for any random investor to be this successful. Or there could be a 1:3 chance but you need to meet specific criteria, which he and only a few others have.
You can’t describe a situation with dice rolls unless you’re very sure what kind of dice you’re rolling.
CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I was responding to purely hypothetical odds that someone just made up, in which case things can be as complicated or simple as one wants them to be.
But even if I were making an actual prediction based on real statistical data, I am not sure why you would think that having an expectation of the approximate distribution of something given its statistical likelihood is “mistaking statistics for actual reality”.