The Fool wrote:
>
> > From: jeffrey miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > On Behalf Of The Fool
> > > But interactive television is a perfect example of the way
> > > that new technology is challenging the whole concept of
> > > personally identifiable information. For instance, given just
> > > a birthday and a ZIP code, direct marketers claim they can
> > > match members of the public to existing databases of consumer
> > > information with 97% accuracy.
> > > ---
> >
> > Now that is scary.
>
> Perhaps but then again go into a room with 36 different people in it and
> you are 99% percent probable to have the same birthday as someone.
Is it that if individual A is put in a room with 35 other people, 1 is
99% likely to have the same birthday as A, or is it that, given 36
people, it is 99% probable that 2 of them will share a birthday?
I thought it was the second. My reading of your sentence suggests the
first.
Julia
