Thread:MistofMists/@comment-24577221-20190306052144/@comment-24577221-20190413160406

It may have been that way for a very long time, if it's a very rare occurrence. The "it never happens" thing may be just a myth, which someone added to the wiki, and everyone who came here after that assumed to be true. If you believe that it never happens, why bother testing it, when the testing would take a lot of time and work, and there are much easier ways to get what you want?

That's kind of why I ran the breeding experiments for the Ethereals and others. People were saying that the chance of breeding a Ghazt was 1% (and sometimes other numbers were thrown around), but I couldn't find any information about why people were saying that. I got to wondering about what the number really was, and the math involved in getting it reliably. Some of my M.Sc. work was about low-probability events, and I knew that it would take a lot of tries to get that probability with a relative uncertainty as low as 10%. Hence all of the "minions". I figured that the experimental process would be a good teaching thing... a lot more interesting than the bloody penny-flipping that my grade-7 (?) science class spent a whole week on.