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IT has recently been argued1,2 that the observation of close pairs of QSOs with very different redshifts provides support for non-cosmological explanations of the redshifts. We show in this note that the pairs observed so far may be comfortably explained as random coincidences and that the small probabilities that are often quoted depend on the use of a posteriori statistics.
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BAHCALL, J., WOLTJER, L. Close Pairs of QSOs. Nature 247, 22–23 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/247022a0
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