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But it is one that you need to already have been educated about. The author seems to be assuming that all their readers have CS degrees or have read a certain n
by GavinMcG 10y ago
But it is one that you need to already have been educated about. The author seems to be assuming that all their readers have CS degrees or have read a certain narrow slice of technical content elsewhere. It's bad writing for a generalist platform like Medium.
- icebraining 10y agoHow so? The Markov chain reference is only used in a reformulation of the same statement already said in layman terms.
- golergka 10y agoCS degree? I was completely sure Markov chains were high school material
- Godel_unicode 10y agoAnecdotally, they were at my high school in the US.
- wf 10y agoLooks like ~1% of US high school students had stats in 1990 and only ~11% in 2009. https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=97 https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=97
- sqrt 10y agoI'd be shocked if more than 5% (and even that's a stretch) of fresh high school graduates in the US knew what a Markov chain is.
- golergka 10y agoSo? General population is an abysmally low benchmark in any country. People from 5% of top high schools sounds about right for an article like this.
- maverick_iceman 10y agoMarkov Chain is a pretty elementary concept. Anyone interested in having a serious discussion of economics should at least have a passing familiarity with it.
- GavinMcG 10y agoGood to know. I'm only familiar with it in a computing context.