Littlewood’s law states that a person can expect to experience events with odds of one in a million (referred to as a ‘miracle’) at the rate of about one per month. It is named after the British mathematician John Edensor Littlewood.
It seeks, among other things, to debunk one element of supposed supernatural phenomenology and is related to the more general law of truly large numbers, which states that with a sample size large enough, any outrageous (in terms of probability model of single sample) thing is likely to happen.
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