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"Of the 36 applicants that were interviewed, 20 were ultimately promoted... . Among the promoted individuals, 62 percent were female and 38 percent were male."
in: “Woefully thin statistics” doom adverse impact claim, JDSUPRA.com, 24 August 2017
Lecture on football probability
Margaret Cibes sent a link to the following YouTube video:
It features John Urschel, an offensive for the NFL's Baltimore Ravens, who is also studying applied mathematics at MIT. The video begins with John at a chalkboard using a decision tree to analyze a one-point vs. two-point conversion late in a football game.
John is already a published mathematician, as described in this 2016 article from the Notices of the AMS.