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There was another fun example of how you can’t rely on supposed experts when a University of Nebraska professor Ana-Rhodes Short embarrassed herself by weighing
by in3d 4y ago
There was another fun example of how you can’t rely on supposed experts when a University of Nebraska professor Ana-Rhodes Short embarrassed herself by weighing in on the poker cheating controversy. She created a whole game tree assuming that the player who claims that he got cheated could only have one possible hand instead of a range of hands and also somehow thought that running it twice would change the odds. She also claimed that she used it as a lesson for her unfortunate students. Then she got extremely defensive, blaming toxic men, etc. when poker players pointed out her errors. (For the record I’m leaning towards no cheating and extremely poor handling of the case by the player who claims he got cheated).
- Acutulus 4y agoCould I trouble you to a link to Rhodes's statement if it's still available/if you have one? I wanted to see her claims myself, but I couldn't turn up anything after a few minutes of googling or looking at her twitter. I appreciate it either way.
- in3d 4y agoThe original tweet appears to be deleted. But her backlash at the responses is still there: https://twitter.com/The_Ada_Rhodes/status/1576991730171187201 https://twitter.com/The_Ada_Rhodes/status/157699173017118720... https://twitter.com/The_Ada_Rhodes/status/1577301985811996674 https://twitter.com/The_Ada_Rhodes/status/157730198581199667... https://twitter.com/The_Ada_Rhodes/status/1577297851238998022 https://twitter.com/The_Ada_Rhodes/status/157729785123899802... https://twitter.com/ScientistMel/status/1577017326901215233 https://twitter.com/ScientistMel/status/1577017326901215233 "I literally study rational and irrational decision making in the face of risk? My math model is correct The game tree is correct The discrete math is correct" I see that now she thinks she can exploit game theory optimal solvers https://twitter.com/The_Ada_Rhodes/status/1577872222290599936 https://twitter.com/The_Ada_Rhodes/status/157787222229059993... :) I'm sure John Nash would be impressed.