Uploaded August 2014 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This is the fifth video in a five-part series on critical thinking about coincidences.
In this video we examine unlikely coincidences through the lens of the "birthday problem", or the "birthday paradox", as it is sometimes called. This is a famous problem in probability theory that is used to illustrate how combinatorial factors can make seemingly impossible events statistically inevitable.
This is the fifth video in a five-part series on critical thinking about coincidences.
In this video we examine unlikely coincidences through the lens of the "birthday problem", or the "birthday paradox", as it is sometimes called. This is a famous problem in probability theory that is used to illustrate how combinatorial factors can make seemingly impossible events statistically inevitable.
