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Title: Statistics Question - why not have a go ?
Post by: goat major on 01 November 2011, 02:41:24 PM


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Title: Re: Statistics Question - why not have a go ?
Post by: FierceKitty on 01 November 2011, 02:52:46 PM
0% A self-referential question is logically meaningless, whether one of the terms is duplicated or not.
Title: Re: Statistics Question - why not have a go ?
Post by: OldenBUA on 01 November 2011, 03:13:54 PM
Ok, so it's not statistics, but probability calculation...

I'm still working it out, be with you in a moment...

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Title: Re: Statistics Question - why not have a go ?
Post by: Nosher on 01 November 2011, 03:37:20 PM
Talking of statistics, could someone post Cameron 'Blairs' 10 happiness indicators?

I might have a chance of getting 1/10 correct ;D

Great to know that in these times of 'austerity' and 'all in this together' Camerons wasting 'my hard earned' on petty, insignificances rather than concentrating on getting the country back on its feet and out to work >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
Title: Re: Statistics Question - why not have a go ?
Post by: Steve J on 01 November 2011, 04:04:38 PM
Nigeria apparently has the happiest people in the world, despite widespread un-employment, disease, poverty etc. I can attest to the fact having lived and worked there for 5 years :). Yet in the UK we are more unhappy with our lot than our parents generation.
Title: Re: Statistics Question - why not have a go ?
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 01 November 2011, 04:30:31 PM
50% - well someone 'as tbe serious round 'ere....

IanS
Title: Re: Statistics Question - why not have a go ?
Post by: Hertsblue on 01 November 2011, 06:35:21 PM
This has gone from a somewhat iffy question to the state of mind of Nigeria. Now that's what I call "thread drift"!  :D
Title: Re: Statistics Question - why not have a go ?
Post by: FierceKitty on 02 November 2011, 01:47:35 AM
Quote from: OldenBUA on 01 November 2011, 03:13:54 PM
Ok, so it's not statistics, but probability calculation...

I'm still working it out, be with you in a moment...

Logically, if you choose at random from 4 answers, you have a 25% chance of getting it right. However, this answer is repeated twice..../size]
I thought it was repeated only once!
Title: Re: Statistics Question - why not have a go ?
Post by: Techno on 02 November 2011, 06:55:51 AM
So....What IS the right answer then ?

Cheers - Phil.
Title: Re: Statistics Question - why not have a go ?
Post by: DanJ on 03 November 2011, 11:03:54 AM
I'm too unhappy to work it out  :(

Need retail therapy, must order more Pendraken figs  :D
Title: Re: Statistics Question - why not have a go ?
Post by: OldenBUA on 03 November 2011, 11:46:11 AM
Quote from: FierceKitty on 02 November 2011, 01:47:35 AM
   I thought it was repeated only once!

Ah, I see where you're getting at. If something is repeated twice, you would indeed expect it to be there three times. And it actually isn't, is it?

I was quite lucky to avoid the logic police with that one, who knows what might have happened.  :-\

:D
Title: Re: Statistics Question - why not have a go ?
Post by: FierceKitty on 03 November 2011, 12:19:25 PM
The logic police have given up on that one, I fear.
Title: Re: Statistics Question - why not have a go ?
Post by: OldenBUA on 03 November 2011, 02:25:07 PM
Quote from: FierceKitty on 03 November 2011, 12:19:25 PM
The logic police have given up on that one, I fear.

Maybe they're still going round in circles.