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Re:No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with... by ehsankia on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @10:47AM (#22309744)
Obviously there's no guarantee, and there's also the fact that we may not have every case documented, but if it is true that we have 0 case documented, that's pretty far from 600. Even if it's not "impossible", then at the very least it's less likely.
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Re:No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with... by luc4sdreyer on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @11:49AM (#22310368)
It's a simple binomial probability calculation. The probability of one or more blind schizophrenic people born in the US, assuming they're independent variables, is 1-0,999998^330000000. I don't have a calculator on hand that can calculate that, but it's more than 1 - 10^-87. So the odds that there is no link between the two is close to the odds of guessing a specific bitcoin wallet's key in one try.
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