You know, I really know nothing about this stuff, but this use of statistics (across many fields we see the odds of this occurring are X) kinda feels like nonsense. The odds of this occurring is 1. Because it did, and we found it occurred, and then went back and concocted these numbers. It’s like a poker hand you draw, and wow, the odds of getting this hand are miniscule. But the odds of getting a set of cards, if you draw them, is 1.
Going back and finding the “odds” of an event that already happens is mostly meaningless. Extremely unlikely things happen constantly, see any particular game of poker.
What I think would have been at stat that would be interesting is what are the odds of ANY patented sequence appearing in this genome.
Going back and finding the “odds” of an event that already happens is mostly meaningless. Extremely unlikely things happen constantly, see any particular game of poker.
What I think would have been at stat that would be interesting is what are the odds of ANY patented sequence appearing in this genome.