What is "improbabilities"

Usage examples of "improbabilities".

On the spectrum of improbabilities, the spotlight turns out to illuminate only the narrow range from the left-hand end (certainty) up to minor miracles, like a hole-in-one or a dream that comes true.

There is a vast range of mathematically calculable improbabilities way outside the range of the spotlight.

We are equipped to make mental calculations of risk and odds, within the range of improbabilities that would be useful in human life.

But they cannot be the whole truth, for they deny the very heart of the evolution theory, which gives it the power to dissolve astronomical improbabilities and explain prodigies of apparent miracle.

And we've already come across improbabilities that are way beyond this bound, such as Fred Hoyle's figure for the likelihood of the full complement of human proteins arising through chance, or Lee Spetner's for speciation and convergence.

And if you had found that our mysterious friend had a fossilized repeating shotgun on his person, I would have conceded immediately—and then wracked my brains trying to figure out how to explain the improbabilities involved.

But I suggest each of the three holds substantial improbabilities, and when all of them are combined the likelihood of truth is statistically slight.

Surely, having faced all the improbabilities current here, what he had to say would not seem a complete impossibility.

One had to accept many improbabilities in this world, but would these two accept what had happened?

The end result of history to the leading edge was littered with improbabilities in the extreme.