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>In reality if you take a sample of 8 billion people somebody is bound to record 10,000 consecutive coin toss wins

Math does not check out. Perhaps you meant around 33 consecutive coin toss wins?



How many events contributed to Buffett, Gates, Zuckerberg, Trump, Biden...status?

Each and every event going their way.


I'm just objecting to the numbers here, you could have every person in the world tossing coins for the rest of their lives and the odds are that nobody would ever record 10000 consecutive wins.

AFAICT, if everyone in the world flipped a coin 10000 times the longest streak would most likely be around 33.


IOW each and every event in defiance of the odds that have always faced the least privileged of non-contenders for that exact reason.




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