Thanks to
an unlikely dice roll, a single critical attack this weekend became one of the most shocking moments I've ever...
Not exact matches
After some
unlikely miracle you have Hernandez, the second best guard and over-all 15th ranked player in the entire draft dropping into the Vikings lap at pick 30 but ohhhh - nnnooooo you decide to
roll the
dice and drop to the 34th pick over-all.
It is a bit like
rolling a series of
dice — if you
roll a six, it is
unlikely to be the first six to occur if many other
dice have been
rolled already.
«Black Swan's» are less about being unlucky with a very
unlikely roll of the
dice.
This allows authors to express high confidence that an event is extremely
unlikely (e.g.,
rolling a
dice twice and getting a six both times), as well as high confidence that an event is about as likely as not (e.g., a tossed coin coming up heads).