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On a recent vacation, I was unsuccessfully trying to reunite with my family outside a busy shopping mall and starting to get a little stressed. I was on a crowded sidewalk, in a busy city known for crime, and it was raining. I thought there was no way things could get more aggravating when something warm and solid hit my arm and shirt.
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A bird had pooped on me.
Not having the kids with me, and being in a foreign country, I used a couple of words in English that best represented my feelings towards the bird and the entire situation. Being a generally positive person, I quickly recovered once I got dry, cleaned up, and had the kind of beverage you have when you've been defecated on and want to de-stress. I told the kids, who of course found it funny. I even laughed a little.
What are the odds?
Two days later, in a small beach town, my wife and I were returning from a hike. I wasn't even thinking about the poop incident any longer when something warm and solid hit my shirt and shorts.
A bird had pooped on me. Again.
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Random vs. Assignable Cause
I used this to explain random and assignable causes. E.g. somebody buys an expensive car, and it gets birded while out in the open--that is random cause. If he parks it under a tree, that's an assignable cause.
Along the same lines ...
I have a very large backyard and 4 big dogs. I've thought about making 2-foot blocks across my backyard and counting the "poop per block" to see if it can be modeled as a Poisson distribution.
Dog doo is not a random arrival
Dogs smell the area to decide where they want to do their business, so the arrivals would probably not be random.
Good point!
I wonder then if this would work with another animal, such as cows, pigs, or horses. Do they also decide based on smell?
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