Boon Cartoon, boondawgoggle. Doodles. Spy, happy face, naked legs, gun, thug, jail, girl things and hearts. The odds? We hear this term tossed about regarding casino's and the the odds are in their favor. Sports games will have odds of one team winning. It also applies to endeavors of life and just about any activity or event where the outcome could be more than one result. There are no odds that 2 plus 2 is 5. Just never going to happen. But the odds of a random coin flip landing on heads is 50%. Now most people don't understand or at least they are not comfortable with statistics, which is the basis for odds. What I've witnessed is people generally dramatically skew the odds or interpret them to favor their preferred outcome by employing emotion and desire. What has me thinking about this? Well for one I saw a news story this morning. Now I've seen a lot of news stories that employ this tactic of big numbers standing alone. This particular story focused on
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