Six of the children in mr. myer's class were born on exactly the same day. this strikes him as astonishing and improbable. in this instance, he should be reminded that

I believe the answer is: random sequences of events often don't look random.

This type of perception often lead to the view that some random events could happen because some sort of 'magic' or fate from a higher being because in the eyes of the people who experience the random event, the event seems to happen very naturally.