The supposed principle that future events are likely to turn out so that they balance any past deviation from a presumed average.
‘the law of averages suggests it is Arsenal's turn to beat their neighbours’
‘Perhaps, but it'll more likely be the law of averages, a destiny thing, a twist of fate.’
‘If they did it once, the law of averages most likely would favor them doing it a second time.’
‘Above all, though, first round day is when the law of averages is more likely to favour lower pedigree opposition maintaining the FA Cup's shock factor.’
‘With the regularity and volume of drugs and treatment that I undergo, the law of averages would suggest that a mistake could be made.’
‘This is Dublin's third final in four years at this level and on the law of averages, they are due a win.’
‘Most of what you hear, however, will be pretty mundane, given the law of averages and the general human tendency to lose track of our thoughts halfway to completing them.’
‘Just by the law of averages, everyone who went to Eton isn't useless and everyone who went to a comprehensive isn't a brilliant statesman and champion of ‘the people’.’
‘And by the law of averages, they're going to get one through.’
‘Of course, with the law of averages, not every winter can be a white one, but it would appear that three mild ones in a row is unheard of; therefore, is the climate changing?’
‘Given the small slice of the population these privileged backgrounds represent, we have here a spectacular breakdown in the law of averages.’
‘‘I should be gone out of here, by the law of averages,’ he said.’
‘Will you, as the publisher, ascribe this phenomenon (as it should properly be ascribed) to sheer luck - the working of the law of averages?’
‘This certainly goes against the established law of averages.’
‘Of course, you're not going to know who those other people are; but by the law of averages, if there are thousands, then one of them may be someone you know very well.’
‘The defector is a shifty character from the world of mathematics known as regression to the mean - or in humbler circles the law of averages.’
‘Because they know they have to lose, it's the law of averages.’
‘Well, but that's called coincidence or that's called by the nature of law of averages.’
‘Over the next month we will be hearing rather a lot, yet again, about those 99 years, the law of averages, and luck.’
‘He took over a bunch of players that was accustomed to losing, but expected, on the law of averages, to win one day.’
‘You would have thought, on the law of averages, it was England's turn to succeed.’
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