Some examples:

	Experiment				Event
	-----------------------			-------------------------
	Roll two dice				Get doubles
	Roll two dice				Get a `9'
	Roll one die				Get a `9' (a null event)
	Randomly select a manufactured product	It is defective
	Have a child				The child is a girl
	Hire a new employee			Employee stays at least 5 yrs
	

A single outcome is an example of an event. The latter concept is more general, and can consist of multiple outcomes. For instance, in rolling two dice you might consider the outcome (also event) of getting a `9' or the event of getting at least a `7' (which can be thought of as the collection of 6 distinct outcomes: getting a `9', `10', `11' or `12').

Notice, however, that underlying this example is the assumption that my sample space consists of the individual sums of the dots on the two die - namely, S = {2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ..., 12}. That is, I've decided to make the sum of the dots the basic (building-block) level. If, instead, I were to consider the building blocks to be the individual rolls - that is, if I thought of my sample space as S = {(1,1), (1,2), (1,3), (1,4),(1,5), (1,6), (2,1), ..., (2,6), ..., (6,1), ..., (6,6)} - then a roll of the sum `9' would become an event rather than an outcome, and would consist of the outcomes {(3,6), (4,5), (5,4), (6,3)}.

Disjoint events A and B are events which have no outcomes in common (i.e., they do not overlap in a Venn diagram). If selecting a life-form at random, the events

	$A = $ life-form is human
	$B = $ life-form is a bird

	$A = $ card is a club
	$B = $ card is an ace