An interesting thing to illustrate how difficult statistics can sometimes be to grasp when you're simply going based on intuition:
To this point, 30 people have posted in this thread. Without pulling out a calculator (I'm the only nerd allowed to do that), what are the chances that two or more of us share the same birthday? Answer below, in white:
**There's a 69.6% chance that 2 or more of us share a b'day, although I haven't accounted for leap years.**
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