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The Odds of Family Misfortune Attention from the media can make some tragedies seem outsized.With the fatal crash of John Kennedy Jr.'s plane off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, talk arises once again of a Kennedy family curse. This resort to mysticism seems a common response to the Kennedy tragedies. How likely is it that all the misfortunes we've read about should befall a single family? How do we attach a clear meaning, much less a numerical probability, to such a nebulously defined notion as "an excessive amount of family tragedy?" The singular nature of the Kennedy family and its role in American life make such comparisons especially dubious.
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