<Li> "Traffic lights turn red when you're in a hurry, or your e-mail crashes just as you are about to hit' send' on that critical message"--David Hand </Li> <Li> "...a composer such as Beethoven loses his hearing, or a drummer such as Rick Allen...loses an arm in a car crash"--David Hand </Li> <P> Both Dawkins and Hand offered these examples as part of a critique of the thinking that leads to belief in such laws, rather than examples supporting the existence of the law . Both went on to explain the effect in terms of selection bias and the law of truly large numbers . </P>

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