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.

David Hand is a British mathematician and developed the Improbability Principle. 2 The essence of the Improbability Principle is what we may think as rare events happen every day and that we ...

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.

That makes us at once the audience and the spectacle. This may be the real reason why, in this election season, no one can get anything right: millions of Americans won’t let them. The supporters of ...

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.

The best of many sharply drawn protagonists may be the painting itself, an endearingly anthropomorphized diva slyly unfurling its own storied history—and gazing down from its canvas perch on the ...

— -- NEW YORK -- They should have been thinking about the long flight back to Kansas City for Game 6. They should have been thinking they'd just run into Matt Harvey on the wrong night in ...

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.

Dreams have been described as dress rehearsals for real life, opportunities to gratify wishes, and a form of nocturnal therapy. A new theory aims to make sense of it all. Source: Tumisu/Pixabay ...