Saturday 7 June 2014

Slikely

Slikely: adverb. Slightly likely. In statistics slikely is an official term which is used to denote something that has a probability between 50% and 52% of happening. Clearly this is a very narrow range and therefore not many things can be considered slikely. For example the chance of rain on the 25th of March 1993 could be considered slikely, as well as the probability that a koala will fall on an innocent tourist's head has also been calculated to be slikely. The branch of mathematics known as absulutism, not to be confused with absolutism, believes that slikely should be removed from statistics, as well as all other terms for probability, except for certain and impossible, since absulutists believe that everything in the universe is either certain or impossible.

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