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But coughs is not the only relevant variable. You'd have to analyze everything that could plausibly be used as an accusation of cheating. Looking only at coughs
by ikeboy 6y ago
But coughs is not the only relevant variable. You'd have to analyze everything that could plausibly be used as an accusation of cheating. Looking only at coughs is already falling prey to selection bias.
- celticninja 6y agonot really, if they say coughs were the method of cheating then you can just look at coughs. if their claim was any noise counts,then yes you have to look at sneezes or any other sound. however to be able to use this then you need to know what you are listening for, so a range of sounds is not effective.
- ikeboy 6y agoYes really. Suppose there's a hundred different possible sounds, and each sound has a 1% chance of randomly correlating . The probability of at least one sound correlating would be very high, but once that's identified you would calculate a 1% chance there. That's selection bias. You selected the cough to look at because coughs were the ones that correlated. If something else correlated you might have looked at that one.
- celticninja 6y agoare you familiar with the program and specific episodes?
- ikeboy 6y agoNope
- celticninja 6y agoit may aid your understanding if you were. specifically this guy used up his lifelines in the easiest questions, and then had a clear run on the difficult ones. it was a questionable performance, hence there being an investigation and refusal to award the prize immediately.