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Littlewood's law states that a person can expect to experience events with odds of one in a million (referred to as a "miracle") at the rate of about one per month. It is named after the British mathematician John Edensor Littlewood.

It seeks, among other things, to debunk one element of supposed supernatural phenomenology and is related to the more general law of truly large numbers, which states that with a sample size large enough, any outrageous (in terms of probability model of single sample) thing is likely to happen.

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Littlewood’s Law An individual can expect to experience “miracles” at the rate of about one per month

Gurteen Knowledge Blog   July 31, 2022, 10:20Littlewood’s Law, or adage, states that an individual can expect to experience “miracles” at the rate of about one per month. The law was framed by Cambridge University Professor John Edensor Littlewood. Wikipedia describes the law like this: Littlewood defines a miracle as an exceptional event of special significance occurring … Continue reading Littlewood’s Law An individual can expect to experience “miracles” at the rate of about one per month