Re: new Klingon spelling
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 4, 2004, 19:57 |
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On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:24:02PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> I bear the second most common name, and yet throughout my school years
> only twice did I have a class with another John in it.
Yup. You need to bear in mind that there is a huge number of
popular names, so even the most popular ones represent only a small
fraction of the population. For instance, the most popular name
among current male US teenagers is Michael, but fewer than 4 out
of 100 (3.4091%) of them have that name. So the chance that a high school
class of 30 people will have at least one Michael is pretty good:
1 - (1 - 0.034091)^30 = about 65%, or just under 2 out of 3, but
given ten such classes, the chances are that only four of them will have
*two* Michaels.
-Mark