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I have been trying to use probability in real life occurrence like this whenever I can, so let's get started back of the envelop style according to this site h
by Who828 13y ago
I have been trying to use probability in real life occurrence like this whenever I can, so let's get started back of the envelop style
according to this site http://research.collegeboard.org/content/sat-data-tables http://research.collegeboard.org/content/sat-data-tables
Roughly 1.53 million students take up SAT every year and of which 10k students get perfect SAT score in Math (let's just focus on math for now)
so that's 0.67% (rounded) people getting a perfect score out of the total.
According to this data set, http://blog.rjmetrics.com/surprising-hacker-news-data-analysis/ http://blog.rjmetrics.com/surprising-hacker-news-data-analys...
It says there are roughly 31k active users on HN, considering that I have personally seen many google employee's responding to a query/commenting on HN, let's assume a higher number of 2.5k.
so, 2.5k * 0.0067 which is about 17 people, so there are 17 active google employees on HN which have perfect SAT score in Math.
So that was my attempt, can someone provide a better probabilistic model? (maybe I will learn something new and exciting)
- sejordan 13y agoI think it'd be a fair assumption that the percentage of Google employees with a perfect SAT score is higher than the national average. Just like the percentage of students at MIT with perfect SAT scores is higher than the national average. Google employees aren't representative of the entire population.