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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Sir HC on December 15, 2005, 05:36:00 pm
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051213/D8EFLJJG5.html (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051213/D8EFLJJG5.html)
They need to learn statistics.
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I guess my mathematics degree from the University of Central Oklahoma isn't looking to great these days.
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Originally posted by ChampionshipVinyl:
I guess my mathematics degree from the University of Central Oklahoma isn't looking to great these days.
Was it ever?
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Central Oklahoma has a 'University'?
How's the Western Civilization curriculum there?
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Iowa State has the best PHD Statistics program in the country. Not sure how Central Oklahoma ranks.
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Ok this is bugging me, do the numbers have to be in the right order?
i.e. 175 only wins? (as the payout is $500 I guess the answer is yes)
If so then the odds are 999 to 1 right? close enough to 1000?
Thenin that case the chance of the same number coming up twice in a row is 999x999, close enough to 1000000. Obviously after the numbers are drawn once, it has no effect on the numbers being drawn again the next night.
Or am I missing something?
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Without putting much though into it, I'd say that's right.
Perhaps 000 is a legitimate winning number. Then 001, 002....999. Meaning 1,000 possibilities for any given drawing.
Originally posted by MTB-Markie:
Ok this is bugging me, do the numbers have to be in the right order?
i.e. 175 only wins? (as the payout is $500 I guess the answer is yes)
If so then the odds are 999 to 1 right? close enough to 1000?
Thenin that case the chance of the same number coming up twice in a row is 999x999, close enough to 1000000. Obviously after the numbers are drawn once, it has no effect on the numbers being drawn again the next night.
Or am I missing something?
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Order does matter, but the first number doesn't because you just care that the second matches the first, ergo the odds are 1 in 1000.
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My high school gf's dad was the dean of the statistics dept at GW. What a psycho.....he had me hiding in closets, jumping out windows. Made the relationship quite exciting actually.
That's about all i have to say about the topic of statistics.
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Isn't Oral Roberts University in Oklahoma? Proof that God hates Oklahoma. He created a dustbowl. He sends twisters to torment Okies. He smites the locals with televangelicals. He puts His crappiest 'Universities' in that forsaken, blasted land.
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Originally posted by Chaz, Lover of all Beings:
My high school gf's dad was the dean of the statistics dept at GW. What a psycho.....he had me hiding in closets, jumping out windows. Made the relationship quite exciting actually.
That's about all i have to say about the topic of statistics.
Wow, teaching sure must be HARD
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Originally posted by Hanover Fiste:
Wow, teaching sure must be HARD
that guy looks exactly like my high school physics and calculus teacher, so much so I think it may be him
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Originally posted by pdx pollard:
Originally posted by Hanover Fiste:
Wow, teaching sure must be HARD
that guy looks exactly like my high school physics and calculus teacher, so much so I think it may be him [/b]
You talking about the face or the little woody?
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I swear I'm not their copywriter
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There's a fine line between a numerator and a denominator, but only a fraction of people will understand this.