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Bang Goes The Theory: Probability, Statistics, Randomness and Chance
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Wednesday 06 October 2010 BBC HD
Dallas blows the budget in Vegas to explain...
Rating: 4.7 (6 Votes)
Category: Probability
Tags: Science, Bang, Goes, The, Theory, Probability, Statistics, Mathematics, Maths, Math, Counter-Intuitive, Randomness, Chance, Human, Intuition, Monty, Hall, Pr
Wednesday 06 October 2010 BBC HD
Dallas blows the budget in Vegas to explain why people are so bad at predicting probabilities.
The problems presented are:
Monty-Hall problem:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem
Birthday paradox:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_paradox
Independence of throws: each coin toss is independent of the outcome of the previous one
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_(probability_theory)
Central limit theorem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem
Thanks to lcvvcf on reddit for the above.
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