Three days. Three Denny's restaurants in California. Three shooting deaths.
All unrelated. Really.
In the words of Dr. Lucy Jones, "Random distributions, by definition, sometimes cluster, or they wouldn’t be random."
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I read that story this morning and told my roomie about it. She used to eat at a Denny's in Anaheim, and I frequented one in Ontario.
Random cluster or not, I feel better than I would if I still lived back there.
But when does a cluster of random events become a pattern? I'm not suggesting that these shootings comprise a pattern, but when does a pattern actually emerge from random events?
The greater the cluster, the increased odds that there is a pattern. Until you actually find one, though ...