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  • 11.28.2012 2:02 PM PDT

You're confusing possibility with probability.


Posted by: Chris112408
There is a 100% chance that you just went full retard.

Also this.

[Edited on 11.28.2012 2:03 PM PST]

  • 11.28.2012 2:02 PM PDT
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Someone's a jolly fella.

  • 11.28.2012 2:02 PM PDT
Subject: Point of statistics? Chance of anything happening is 50/50

No. The odds of winning the lottery are far less than 50%. You clearly don't understand even the rudimentary and logical ideas of probability that I learnt in primary school.

  • 11.28.2012 2:02 PM PDT

Posted by: Changsta inc
Racism isn't wrong if it's funny.

...oh, OP.

Statistics is one of the ONLY pieces of math that you will use on a REGULAR basis.

  • 11.28.2012 2:02 PM PDT

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Posted by: Mitochondrion
No. The odds of winning the lottery are far less than 50%. You clearly don't understand even the rudimentary and logical ideas of probability that I learnt in primary school.


He is basing his logic on the Physics principles of observations I think in that when observed an object or matter has to "choose" to act a certain way.

  • 11.28.2012 2:03 PM PDT
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dat logic

  • 11.28.2012 2:04 PM PDT
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Imagine yourself rolling a dice. There are 6 sides, each with a different number, meaning that each number has a 1 in 6 chance of showing up.

Now let's use an example with only two options. Let's say 5 of the 6 sides have a 2, and the other side has a 1. You would be correct in saying there are only two options, but that does not mean there is a 50/50 chance of each one happening. If you rolled the dice 60 times, you would find that you get 2 about 50 times and 1 about 10 times, thus, there is a 5/6 chance of getting a 2 and a 1/6 chance of getting a 1.

Oh, and by the way, I remember this thread from a while ago.

  • 11.28.2012 2:04 PM PDT

You're right the chance of anything is 50/50.

Statistics have to do with the probability not chance.
So therefore you look like an idiot.

  • 11.28.2012 2:06 PM PDT
Subject: Point of probability? Chance of anything happening is 50/50

In a time long past, the armies of the dark came again to the lands of men. Their leaders became known as the fallen lords, and their terrible sorcery was without equal in the west.
In 30 years they reduced the civilized nations into carrion and ash. Until the free city of Madrigal alone defined them. An army gathered there, and a desperate battle was joined against the fallen
Heros were born in the fire and bloodshed of the wars which followed and their names and deeds will never be forgotten


Posted by: Safran888
Imagine yourself rolling a dice. There are 6 sides, each with a different number, meaning that each number has a 1 in 6 chance of showing up.

Now let's use an example with only two options. Let's say 5 of the 6 sides have a 2, and the other side has a 1. You would be correct in saying there are only two options, but that does not mean there is a 50/50 chance of each one happening. If you rolled the dice 60 times, you would find that you get 2 about 50 times and 1 about 10 times, thus, there is a 5/6 chance of getting a 2 and a 1/6 chance of getting a 1.

Oh, and by the way, I remember this thread from a while ago.


Until something is measured, it exists in all
possible locations at once.

Once it is measured, then it picks a value.

Before the die is rolled it is every value, once rolled it chooses a value.

[Edited on 11.28.2012 2:07 PM PST]

  • 11.28.2012 2:06 PM PDT
Subject: Point of statistics? Chance of anything happening is 50/50


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Posted by: RockdaleRooster
You're confusing possibility with probability.


Okay I'll change title to probability.

That's not the point. The whole "it will happen or it won't" is possibility. Probability is different and has to do with the desired result over the total number of possible results.

  • 11.28.2012 2:07 PM PDT
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  • 11.28.2012 2:09 PM PDT
Subject: Point of statistics? Chance of anything happening is 50/50

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No, probability is useful.

  • 11.28.2012 2:09 PM PDT
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Posted by: Panties

Posted by: Safran888
Imagine yourself rolling a dice. There are 6 sides, each with a different number, meaning that each number has a 1 in 6 chance of showing up.

Now let's use an example with only two options. Let's say 5 of the 6 sides have a 2, and the other side has a 1. You would be correct in saying there are only two options, but that does not mean there is a 50/50 chance of each one happening. If you rolled the dice 60 times, you would find that you get 2 about 50 times and 1 about 10 times, thus, there is a 5/6 chance of getting a 2 and a 1/6 chance of getting a 1.

Oh, and by the way, I remember this thread from a while ago.


Every time you roll the die, there's a 50/50 chance you get a 1.

You either do.

Or you don't.
By your logic, if I roll it 100 times, I will get a 1 50 times and something else 50 times, correct? Please, go ahead and try this and see what happens.

  • 11.28.2012 2:12 PM PDT

Actually if you were to take philosophy into this then the OP would be right.

Think about deductive arguments; they only work because of what has happened before: The sun has risen for trillions of years over Earth, and it probably is going to do the same tomorrow; so far, it's has had a 100% chance of success ever since Humans were on the Earth and even before.

But should that fail once, it will drop to 99.99'%

No matter how unlikely anything is to happen, everything is only based off experiments. The truth is, nothing is a fact. If every experiment scientists conducted over the past couple hundred years were to fail even once, the chance of success isn't going to be 100%.

The chance of success is only ever going to be based off things that have happened. What is yet to happen, nobody knows.

  • 11.28.2012 2:13 PM PDT

You fool. That doesn't make 50/50.

You need to get 50 coins. Then, you need to get 50 more. 50. 50. Then I'll put it in my computer. And analyze it. With science.

  • 11.28.2012 2:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: burritosenior
You fool. That doesn't make 50/50.

You need to get 50 coins. Then, you need to get 50 more. 50. 50. Then I'll put it in my computer. And analyze it. With science.


+1

  • 11.28.2012 2:19 PM PDT
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Oh, it's this thread again.

You're assuming there's only two possible outcomes...and there's usually a greater chance of one conclusion over another.

  • 11.28.2012 2:21 PM PDT
Subject: Point of probability? Chance of anything happening is 50/50

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Call me Rdog, not RdOG or RdOG1507. I made that username when I thought it was cool to use alternating capital and lowercase letters...

Probability isn't based on how many possible results there are. It's based on outside factors.

  • 11.28.2012 2:25 PM PDT

Posted by: Changsta inc
Racism isn't wrong if it's funny.

Nobody tell him about a universal rip. He won't be able to handle that knowledge since he statistics are unimportant.

  • 11.28.2012 2:26 PM PDT