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[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 64 points 1 year ago (27 children)

That's a female cat. Calico cats are exclusively female, barring cats with extra chromosomes which are extremely rare.

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Extremely rare doesn't mean impossible

They're mostly female but not all female

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

I didn't say it was impossible.

That said, if somebody gave me the option to bet on a calico cat being female, I would always take that bet because I'd only be wrong about one in three thousand times (0.03333...% of the time) if the cat was randomly selected, whereas other coat colors it'd be 50-50.

[–] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wouldn't that be three in a thousand?

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, you're right. It'd be 0.03333333...%

I'll edit

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