law of truly large numbers

The law of truly large numbers, attributed to Persi Diaconis and Frederick Mosteller, states that with a sample size large enough, any outrageous thing is likely to happen.

It seeks among other things to debunk one element of supposed supernatural phenomenology and is related to the more general law of truly large numbers, which states that with a sample size large enough, any outrageous thing is likely to happen.

The law of truly large numbers, which explains the double winner of the New Jersey Lottery, says that even if there is only a one-in-a-million chance that something will happen, it will happen eventually given enough time or enough people.