[PEN-L:6684] Mistakes, randomness, accidents and econometrics

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> "J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <rosserjb@xxxxxxx> 05/11/99 01:48PM >>
     BTW, for those who come up with half-baked probability
calculations and then declare that this could not have been
a mistake, I would remind you that the chances of the Three
Mile Island accident happening were supposedly something
like one-in-ten billion.

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Random Barkley,

Maybe it was a butterfly in China flapping its wings that caused this mistake, this accidental bombing.

Funny how econometrics is used to find order and correlation in plottings of points that seem random. But when it comes to explaining events that look causally connected, you tend to see it as random , an accident.

As Engels said, the laws of nature assert themselves through a series of accidents.

Charles Brown