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by Steven Strogatz, ''New York Times'', Opinionator blog, 25 April 2010 | by Steven Strogatz, ''New York Times'', Opinionator blog, 25 April 2010 | ||
Steven Strogatz, an applied mathematics professor at Cornell, has been writing highly engaging weekly installments about mathematics for the Opinionator. This week's entry is about probability. More specifically, it focuses on conditional probability. | Steven Strogatz, an applied mathematics professor at Cornell, has been writing highly engaging weekly installments about mathematics for the Opinionator. This week's entry is about probability. More specifically, it focuses on conditional probability. Of course, this is a notorious source of confusion for students | ||
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Demystifying conditional probability
Chances are
by Steven Strogatz, New York Times, Opinionator blog, 25 April 2010
Steven Strogatz, an applied mathematics professor at Cornell, has been writing highly engaging weekly installments about mathematics for the Opinionator. This week's entry is about probability. More specifically, it focuses on conditional probability. Of course, this is a notorious source of confusion for students
Submitted by Bill Peterson, based on a suggestion from Dan Bent (an intro statistics student)
Tea party graphics
A mighty pale tea
by Charles M. Blow, New York Times, 16 April 2010
This article recounts Blow's experience visiting a Tea Party rally as a self-identified "infiltrator." He was interested in assessing the group's diversity. Reproduced below is a portion of a graphic, entitled The many shades of whites, that accompanied the article.
The data are from a recent NYT/CBS Poll.
Submitted by Paul Alper