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Name of statistical phenomena? 1

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amorrison

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Say someone says there are 95 black marbles and 5 white marbles in a paper bag.
When you put your hand the bag for a sample you remove 1 black marble and 4 white marbles.
You can then - with very high probability call the person a liar.
There is a name for this phenomena – I think the person it is named after a person.
Anyone recall what the name is?
Thanks

 
Only if the marbles were randomly distributed and claimed to be.
 
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