They ask a mathematician and still get the answer wrong

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051213/D8EFLJJG5.html

They need to learn statistics.

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

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?

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

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?

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?

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.

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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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

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

You talking about the face or the little woody?

I swear I'm not their copywriter

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