Dr. Steven Novella
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You're there.
Lottery?
The lottery fallacy.
This is the lottery fallacy.
Yeah.
So this is – as you say, Bob, this is considering – this is why he's asking the wrong question.
What's the probability that these numbers line up by chance?
He should be asking what's the probability that any numbers line up by chance?
And the answer is pretty much unity, right?
I mean pretty much if you give yourself the entire universe of numbers to manipulate –
So I said, so you took the latitude of this pyramid.
Why?
Why did you choose that pyramid, all the latitudes that are on Mars?
Why the distance from the center of Mars to both moons added up and divided by 100?
Why not one of the moons?
Why not from the surface of Mars?
Why did you multiply by a five?
Why did you take the latitude and multiply by five?
Why not by six?