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> if you've ever seen the TV show Card Sharks... I developed and taught an entire undergraduate math class on the mathematics of game shows. https://people.ma
by impendia 6y ago
> if you've ever seen the TV show Card Sharks...
I developed and taught an entire undergraduate math class on the mathematics of game shows.
https://people.math.sc.edu/thornef/schc212/gameshows-428.pdf https://people.math.sc.edu/thornef/schc212/gameshows-428.pdf
Much of the class I worked out probabilities like these, and compared what contestants "should" do to what they actually do.
Watching reruns of Card Sharks, The Price Is Right, and others, I've found that most people have a surprisingly good intuitive sense of probability. Not always, but more often than not.
- js2 6y agoExcept for that damn Monty Hall problem!