Colin Bruce's _Conned again, Watson!_ describes many of the perceptual biases that people read into, hope for, or are manipulated by in daily probabilities. He agrees with Paul. From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Stone Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 9:06 PM To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Hitchens Arguably on John Brown Coincidences ONLY exist because of the miniscule chance of some things overlapping in the trillions of things that happen in a given time period. No magic! Paul