The left handed Liberals

Ok, is there some sort of consipracy.
The five Liberal MLAs are all lefties, the Liberal Candidate for Fraser is a lefty so if Senator Humphries is a lefy all male Liberal politicians will be lefties.

How did they al put their differences aside long enough to be photographed together in the same place? Perhaps the Canberra Times has digitally altered the picture?

At last the five independents have found something in common ….

Ah right. I was going for the most generous estimate I could find which was 20% left handedness, but wikipedia tells me that (in the US, at least), it’s 12% for 20 year olds, down to around 5% at 50 year olds. For anyone too lazy to do the maths, taking Ralph’s value of 8%, the odds of 5 randomly selected people all being left handed are .0003%, or 3 in a million.

God, I love statistics 🙂

At last, a useful story from the Canberra Times!

Sorry, 8 per cent of the population is left handed – so should be 0.08^5.

Er…surely you mean 0.2^5? 0.8^5 would be the probability of them all being right handed.

So given how staggeringly unlikely it is that they all just happen to be lefties perhaps we should examine a more likely scenario?

Perhaps they’re all pod people? (a’la bodysnatchers) with the left-write thing mirrored when they got copied?

Seems a lot more likely to me…

so even if you vote for the right.. you still are voting for the left???

Actually that should be 0.8^5