Wejo plays poker and he knows about odds. He knows that no one will ever win that prize, or get remotely close. Remember that contest for worlds? Pick the top 3, in order, in like 10+ events? Ridiculous odds on that. I'd rather the guy who picks the best gets a $100 gift certificate or something, but I guess Wejo likes making impossible contests.
kevinb wrote:
yeah wejo, you mean you are not going to make it easy to give us 100k?
a free fun thing and there is a chance (small, but there) to win 100k. yeah, that sucks. please.
You clearly don't anything about odds. No one will ever win this contest ever. It is impossible, the odds are so long it's not even funny.
Unholy Cumulus wrote:
You clearly don't anything about odds. No one will ever win this contest ever. It is impossible, the odds are so long it's not even funny.
so which is it? long odds or impossible? it cannot be both.
of course i know odds. my poiint was that wejo owes you, me, us nothing. and really there are only about 30 guys that have a chance of finishing in the top 10. so while very small odds it is a far cry from impossible.
actually i think there is a better chance that two people will have the same 10 negating the win, but i digress.
Well my point was never that Wejo owes us anything. He doesn't, obviously. But the odds of winning this are probably worse than the odds of me getting hit by an asteroid in the next 15 seconds. Ok, I'm still here.
And by the way, it is laughable to think that two people might pick the same top 10 in the same order. It's like this . . . no freakin' way.
Many will haqve the same list because letsrun posters copy from each other all the time.
Here 'ya go.
1. Ryan Hall
2. Abdi Abdirahman
3. Khalid Khannouchi
4. Meb Keflezighi
5. Brian Sell
6. Daniel Browne
7. Alan Culpepper
8. James Carney
9. Peter Gilmore
10 Mbarak Hussein
kevinb wrote:
of course i know odds.
so while very small odds it is a far cry from impossible.
The second statement above leads me to believe that the first statement is incorrect. While picking the top 10 is mathematically not impossible, it is a first cousin of impossible.