Crash Course Statistics Preview
Welcome to Crash Course Statistics! In this series we're going to take a closer look at how statistics play a significant role in our everyday lives. Now this a "math" course, and there will...
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Hi everybody! I’m Adriene Hill. Welcome to Crash Course Statistics! And by everybody. I don’t mean that literally. There are give or take 7.6 Billion people in the world. When we hit a million views...that’s still only point-zero-one (0.01%) percent of the population. So maybe Hi Almost Nobody! Statistics are everywhere. Some are explicitly part of our lives….like ...batting averages in baseball...expected goals in soccer...or the percent chance the meteorologist gives that it’ll snow...They’re in the stone-faced warning from your doctor: “this procedure has a 2 percent chance of failure." Statistics make a very good case for NOT buying lottery tickets. Other times statistics are less obvious--but still with us. Insurers use them to...
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Hi everybody! I’m Adriene Hill. Welcome to Crash Course Statistics! And by everybody. I don’t mean that literally. There are give or take 7.6 Billion people in the world. When we hit a million views...that’s still only point-zero-one (0.01%) percent of the population. So maybe Hi Almost Nobody! Statistics are everywhere. Some are explicitly part of our lives….like ...batting averages in baseball...expected goals in soccer...or the percent chance the meteorologist gives that it’ll snow...They’re in the stone-faced warning from your doctor: “this procedure has a 2 percent chance of failure." Statistics make a very good case for NOT buying lottery tickets. Other times statistics are less obvious--but still with us. Insurers use them to...
