It’s rarer means something happens less often than you might expect.
Imagine you have a bag full of marbles, most of them are blue, but there are also a few red ones. If you pick one marble out of the bag randomly, it's rarer to get a red marble because there aren’t as many of them compared to the blue ones.
Like Finding a Special Marble
If your bag had 10 marbles and only 1 was red, then picking that red marble would be really rarer, you'd probably feel excited if it happened!
But if you had 100 marbles and 10 were red, getting one of those would be less rare, it's more like finding a special marble in a bigger bag.
So when something is rarer, it means it doesn’t happen as much, just like that special red marble in the big bag.
Examples
- Why are blue eyes rarer than brown eyes?
- How is a diamond rarer than a rock?
- Why is being left-handed considered rare?
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See also
- Why Does Math Work So Well for Science?
- Why Is Math the Language of the Universe?
- What is reduction?
- What happens fast?
- What is 50-day?