They ask a mathematician and still get the answer wrong

[Sir HC]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051213/D8EFLJJG5.html
 
 They need to learn statistics.

[ChampionshipVinyl]

I guess my mathematics degree from the University of Central Oklahoma isn't looking to great these days.

[Frank Gallagher]

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?

Central Oklahoma has a 'University'?
 
 How's the Western Civilization curriculum there?

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Iowa State has the best PHD Statistics program in the country. Not sure how Central Oklahoma ranks.

[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?

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

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?

[Sir HC]

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.

[chaz]

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.

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.

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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[ratioci nation]

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

[Frank Gallagher]

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?

[Dejecty-hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

I swear I'm not their copywriter

[grateful]

There's a fine line between a numerator and a denominator, but only a fraction of people will understand this.