Humans love to read meaning into the improbable, even when such events—from Germany's World Cup loss to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's congressional win—happen frequently.

The improbability of subjective elephants, if too easily assumed, may cast doubt on the validity of the improbability hypothesis applied to objective elephants.

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The improbability principle says that those very rare events, those very strange coincidence, in fact should be expected to happen. Now, that sounds like a contradiction.

I like to think I’m unique. Don’t you? Complicated. Surprising. Unpredictable. I like to think that people who’ve only just met me or who know only the basic facts about me still have a lot to learn.

'The Improbability of Love' by Hannah Rothschild: EW reviewA picture is worth a thousand plot points in Hannah Rothschild’s bright, champagne-fizzy satire of modern romance, human avarice, and ...

Read an excerpt: The statistical case is, admittedly, circumstantial rather than conclusive. But the numbers also firmly point to the intense improbability of the accuracy of the present Biden lead.

Above all, acknowledge and appreciate the astonishing improbability of love when you find it. If it were easy, it wouldn't mean quite so much when it happens. SHARE TWEET EMAIL 3COMMENTS ...