Check your intuition: The birthday problem - David Knuffke
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Imagine a group of people. How big do you think the group would have to be before there’s more than a 50% chance that two people in the group have the same birthday? The answer is … probably lower than you think. David Knuffke explains how the birthday problem exposes our often-poor intuition when it comes to probability.
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The actual origin of the birthday problem is not clear, however it was featured in the April 1957 edition of "Mathematical Games" in Scientific American, a long running series of mathematical puzzles that was authored by noted math/science popularizer Martin Gardner. There are many different presentations of the Birthday problem. Here’s an interactive model that allows you to determine the probability of a birthday match for different sized groups of people.
The Khan Academy has a video lesson on this problem. Visit this NPR link: Math Guy: The Birthday Problem for one last review!
The Khan Academy has a video lesson on this problem. Visit this NPR link: Math Guy: The Birthday Problem for one last review!

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