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> Quora has to allow low quality content on their service in order to keep the volume up, to drive traffic & clicks, to drive ad potential How does flooding my

> Quora has to allow low quality content on their service in order to keep the volume up, to drive traffic & clicks, to drive ad potential How does flooding my feed with dozens of questions about what the probabilities of different subsets of the faces are when rolling a die (e.g. what's the probability of getting an even number or greater than 5 when rolling a die?) help drive traffic, clicks, and ad potential?

rhizome 8y ago
Because each of those is probably a homework problem in Stats 101, and every college kid is going to be googling for the answer to the variation from their edition of the textbook.
- daveFNbuck 8y ago
  College kids have to search for the answer to what the probability of getting a 5 or higher in a die roll is?
  - chrisdsaldivar 8y ago
    You’d be surprised.
  - jamiek88 8y ago
    Liberal arts kids doing the mandatory math classes? Sure. CS major in first year who has been interested in math and science as a kid? Probably not. First year college in the USA is very broad. It’s not like university in Europe / UK where you specialize in one subject only for your bachelors.
    - daveFNbuck 8y ago
      I went to college in the USA, and I understand that undergrads are often put into classes far outside of their expertise. Still, I expect college students to be able to count to 6 and understand fractions. Even the remedial algebra students I helped in high school weren't that bad.
  - Sohcahtoa82 8y ago
    There are still people that think that buying multiple lottery tickets actually lowers your chances of winning. I tried to argue against someone with this. I even tried scaling the problem down to being two balls drawn from a pool of four, and showing how if you buy multiple tickets, your chances of winning greatly increased. And they accepted what I was saying, but just insisted that the math "doesn't scale" and it doesn't work the same when it's 5 balls drawn from a pool of 69. Even worse, she tried to say something like "You're really good at math. You should know this!"
    - fucking_tragedy 8y ago
      > There are still people that think that buying multiple lottery tickets actually lowers your chances of winning. This blows my mind, but at least it means they aren't wasting even more money on the lottery.
    - daveFNbuck 8y ago
      That's really bizarre. I wonder where they got that idea. Why do you say "still"?

rhizome 8y ago

Because each of those is probably a homework problem in Stats 101, and every college kid is going to be googling for the answer to the variation from their edition of the textbook.

daveFNbuck 8y ago
College kids have to search for the answer to what the probability of getting a 5 or higher in a die roll is?
- chrisdsaldivar 8y ago
  You’d be surprised.
- jamiek88 8y ago
  Liberal arts kids doing the mandatory math classes? Sure. CS major in first year who has been interested in math and science as a kid? Probably not. First year college in the USA is very broad. It’s not like university in Europe / UK where you specialize in one subject only for your bachelors.
  - daveFNbuck 8y ago
    I went to college in the USA, and I understand that undergrads are often put into classes far outside of their expertise. Still, I expect college students to be able to count to 6 and understand fractions. Even the remedial algebra students I helped in high school weren't that bad.
- Sohcahtoa82 8y ago
  There are still people that think that buying multiple lottery tickets actually lowers your chances of winning. I tried to argue against someone with this. I even tried scaling the problem down to being two balls drawn from a pool of four, and showing how if you buy multiple tickets, your chances of winning greatly increased. And they accepted what I was saying, but just insisted that the math "doesn't scale" and it doesn't work the same when it's 5 balls drawn from a pool of 69. Even worse, she tried to say something like "You're really good at math. You should know this!"
  - fucking_tragedy 8y ago
    > There are still people that think that buying multiple lottery tickets actually lowers your chances of winning. This blows my mind, but at least it means they aren't wasting even more money on the lottery.
  - daveFNbuck 8y ago
    That's really bizarre. I wonder where they got that idea. Why do you say "still"?