Your odds of randomly getting 12 double yolks is 1 in 1e36 (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) which is a number so big that I doubt anyone here can conceptualize it.
To put it in perspective, you have a 1:292,000,000 chance at winning the Powerball.
That means you have a much MUCH better chance at winning the Powerball lottery back to back 4 times in a row (1 in 7.2699497e+33) than you do randomly getting 12 double yolks.
You bought a double yolk pack of eggs. Period.
Edit: Expanded on the math and fixed a couple typos.
Chicken scientist here. Something to consider is that double yolks are much more common in a young birds, just starting to lay. Chicken farmers bring in birds that are all the same age, so at the beginning, its possible that the majority of the eggs they are sending to the grading station are double yolked. These eggs would likely travel through the cleaning and grading process together, ending up in the same carton and adjacent cartons, and therefore, the same grocery store. So biologically, it's more clustered than math based on averages would show. It's a very common occurrence and anyone in the "chicken world" would tell you the same.
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u/0xB0BAFE77 Dec 18 '22 edited Dec 18 '22
Call me cynical, but I call bullshit.
Double yolks are roughly 1:1000
Your odds of randomly getting 12 double yolks is 1 in 1e36 (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) which is a number so big that I doubt anyone here can conceptualize it.
To put it in perspective, you have a 1:292,000,000 chance at winning the Powerball.
That means you have a much MUCH better chance at winning the Powerball lottery back to back 4 times in a row (1 in 7.2699497e+33) than you do randomly getting 12 double yolks.
You bought a double yolk pack of eggs. Period.
Edit: Expanded on the math and fixed a couple typos.