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Would it be possible for the baker to distribute bread to customers in such a way that the weight appears to follow a fair curve for any one customer, but is st
by alexbock 10y ago
Would it be possible for the baker to distribute bread to customers in such a way that the weight appears to follow a fair curve for any one customer, but is still unfair if all loaves for all customers were analyzed in aggregate? (something like Simpson's paradox?)
After the professor first discovered him he obviously could have started giving him loaves calculated to follow the fair distribution, but I'm not sure if it's possible to scale that technique.
- maxerickson 10y agoIf he is able to control the loaf the professor gets he could buy 1 correct form.
- chris_va 10y agoEach customer would need to see a normal distribution (possible), and each would need the mean to match the "correct" value (not possible without the overall mean matching the correct value).
- sukilot 10y agoA bread loaf is discrete . Use the same fractional unit rounding technique from Superman II / Office Space.