The case for providing every homeless person with an education in statistics
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
What are going to do about the third of the population that fervently believes in astrology?
Hope is the denial of reality
Same way we deal with the bible thumpers when we teach evolution?Originally Posted by Loki
Wait...America may not be the best example for that....
Yes, we have 'Freedom of religion', not 'from'. sux dunnit?
The worst job in the world is better than being broke and homeless
Cool article, Minx. Tempted to go blow a few dollars on some scratch tickets and see if I can data mine them now...
Neat stuff, makes me consider studying stat and math in college...
*throws all his money into scratch tickets, only to find out they were all handpicked losers*
Edit:
So, to put it simply. They put the numbers in randomly, and then replaced the numbers until they got the distribution of winning lotto tickets that they wanted. Such an algorithm is something you'd expect a student in a high school programming class to make up over lunch break.
Last edited by agamemnus; 02-03-2011 at 01:50 AM.
Could this all be an insidious ploy to tempt people interested in the math into participating in the lotto system?
I wonder how many stores really would let you return unscratched tickets, though.
Summer camps in Poland
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
No. They can't use a really random distribution since they have to have a defined number of winners and losers for a lotto system to make sense.
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Don't know about anywhere
else, but here it is illegal to return tickets. Once purchased, they're yours.
The worst job in the world is better than being broke and homeless
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