Success is nothing but the product of random chance, something that not even the successful can replicate.
However, independent tests showed the device has no better than a random chance of finding a golf ball, much less a bomb.
Scientists usually demand that results be statistically significant--that mathematically determined odds of a result happening by random chance are less than 5%.
The precincts are selected by random chance, like a lottery, and every precinct in the state has an equal chance to be in the sample.
Statistically, this is the inevitable result of random chance.
The basic argument of the first group is that the stock market is largely efficient so the only way an investment manager can beat the market is through random chance.
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By random chance, there is a 25% probability that a given fund will be in the top quartile so you might expect that at least 25% of these top performers stayed in the top quartile.
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It could simply be random chance.
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Additionally, the chance of a random search term correlating with the ILInet data in all ten regions is considerably less than the chance that a random search term can correlate with the data for single location.
Random House is taking a big chance by making such a big bet on an author whose fan base is concentrated in the under-30 demographic, a group not known for its willingness to pay for content of any kind.
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Random weapon drops ensure that everyone has a chance and nobody can simply camp out at weapon spawn points.
In 1892 Galton looked at the pattern of whorls, arches and loops that make up fingerprints, and estimated that the chance of two prints matching at random was about one in 64 billion.
The correlation is about 67%, and the chance that it might have come about at random is less than one in 10, 000.
Why do I habitually pop into random liquor stores to see if, on the off chance, they have my favorite rare bottle collecting dust somewhere?
Another, in 2001, not specifically of rape, found that among 221 women trying to conceive, "one completely random act of unprotected intercourse" had a 3.1% chance of ending in pregnancy.
And if (this would be a truly unrealistic haystack) the haystack were one-dimensional, so that you could only move forwards and backwards along it, your chance of success would actually be quite high, even if the direction of each step was random.
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