law of averages
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.63 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The statistical tendency toward a fixed proportion in the results when an experiment is repeated a large number of times.
noun
An imaginary or perceived "law" of probabilities which is wrongly used to predict results in the short-term.
Informal
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: law of large numbers (not always differentiated)"
- "... as they will not have sufficient distribution of risk to permit the law of averages to play its part and a severe total loss may ..."
- "Second Law - The Law of Averages. Whenever something (such as throwing a die) can have more than one result, if all the possible results have an equal chance ..."
- "It is upon the ideas of 'repeated experimentation' and the law of averages that many of our notions of chance are founded."
- "This coin has landed on heads ten times, so by the law of averages it must land on tails next time."
- "In the nature of things a good many somebodies are always in hospital, and the law of averages had picked on me to be one of them a week or so before. It might just as easily have been the week before that - in which case I'd not be writing now: I'd not be here at all."