Technical Breeding Tips and Advice

[Bea Shamrock]

(09-13-2012 01:38 PM)Tad Carlucci Wrote:  Here's a good tip which is actually something you should know:

If you see someone claiming odds like 1 in 3 or 2 in 3 for something to happen .. IGNORE THEM.

There is no "truth in advertising" requirement for KittyCatS so it's on you to know that such odds are IMPOSSIBLE.

They result from people who insist that 2+2=3.

"Powers of two" are the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc.

ALL odds for KittyCatS are MUST be powers of two. Anyone who claims anything else needs to check their arithmetic.

OK. I'll add that claiming odds of 3 in 4 that something won't happen is OK. Why? Because the odds it *will* happen are 1 in 4, and that IS OK.

One thing that helped me make sense of the odds involved were (still are) punnett squares.