- anticipation
- chance
- contingency
- expectation
- feasibility
- odds
- possibility
- prospect
- chances
- conceivability
- credibility
- hazard
- liability
- likeliness
- plausibility
- practicability
- prayer
- presumption
- promise
- reasonableness
- shot
- toss-up
- outside chance
- snowball's chance
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The probability an interval had zero signals was the probability that the first source didn’t emit a signal, 1−p, times the probability the second source didn’t emit a signal, 1−q.
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When you were told that your opponent would “play rock or paper with equal probability,” most solvers assumed that meant both probabilities were 50 percent, rather than being equal but less than 50 percent.
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WORDS RELATED TO PROBABILITY
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- breaks
- chances
- crises
- crossroads
- emergencies
- events
- eventualities
- exigencies
- fortuities
- happenings
- if it's cools
- incidents
- junctures
- likelihoods
- occasions
- odds
- opportunities
- passes
- pinches
- predicaments
- probabilities
- straits
- turning points
- uncertainties
- zero hours
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- fortuity
- happening
- if it's cool
- incident
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- likelihood
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- pass
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- predicament
- probability
- strait
- turning point
- uncertainty
- zero hour
- believability
- chance
- integrity
- likelihood
- plausibility
- possibility
- probability
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- reliability
- satisfactoriness
- solidity
- solidness
- soundness
- tenability
- trustworthiness
- validity
- clouds
- crisis
- double trouble
- dynamite
- emergency
- endangerment
- exigency
- exposure
- hot potato
- insecurity
- instability
- jeopardy
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- pitfall
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- risk
- risky business
- slipperiness
- storm
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- threat
- uncertainty
- venture
- vulnerability
- clouds
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- double troubles
- dynamite
- emergencies
- endangerments
- exigencies
- exposures
- hot potatos
- insecurities
- instabilities
- jeopardy
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- perils
- pitfalls
- possibilities
- precariousnesses
- precipices
- probabilities
- risks
- risky businesses
- slipperiness
- storms
- thin ices
- threats
- uncertainties
- ventures
- vulnerabilities
- aftereffect
- aftermath
- any case
- case
- chance
- consequence
- contingency
- effect
- event
- goings-on
- happening
- issue
- likelihood
- outcome
- possibility
- probability
- result
- sequel
- toss-up
- upshot
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prob·a·bil·i·ty | \ ˌprä-bə-ˈbi-lə-tē \
1a(1) : the chance that a given event will occur
(2) : the ratio of the number of outcomes in an exhaustive set of equally likely outcomes that produce a given event to the total number of possible outcomes
b : a branch of mathematics concerned with the study of probabilities
2 : something (such as an event or circumstance) that is probable
3 : the quality or state of being probable
4 : a logical relation between statements such that evidence confirming one confirms the other to some degree