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This should be required viewing for every class on probability.

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Mushfiq Mobarak's profile picture
Mushfiq Mobarak2 years ago

Holy crap, who is this person and why does he have a microphone? I feel like we need some licensing regulations before people are allowed to purchase microphones.

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Florian Ederer2 years ago

Clearly, you're not online enough: He is a tenured professor at Stanford.

Saurabh Kumar's profile picture
Saurabh Kumar2 years ago

Is he not getting enough sunlight within 2 hours of waking up?

Thomas Johnson's profile picture
Thomas Johnson2 years ago

"Statistics is the field that mathematicians think is hard and doctors think is easy"

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Robert Anderson2 years ago

Give it your 120% effort

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Victor Chernozhukov #peace 🇺🇦2 years ago

Maybe in applied econometrics course where they teach linear probability model? 😀

Sepehr Shahshahani's profile picture
Sepehr Shahshahani2 years ago

“Would take you to 120 percent, which is a different thing altogether.”

Igor Eckert's profile picture
Igor Eckert2 years ago

Ah, the classic "gonna make this very simple" card, which magically allows you to make shit up.

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Rob Kimball2 years ago

Really embarrassing. Anyone with even basic stats knows you can't be over 100% probability of pregnancy, so this person would be already pregnant once, with a 20% chance of having twins

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Erhan Bilici (🇭🇰,🇺🇦)2 years ago

To make this very simple, all we need to know is the probability of getting a tail in a one-attempt coin toss is 50%. So, if that didn't occur the first time, one should repeat at least 2 or probably 3 times before concluding that something fishy is going on.

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