Tag: probability

04 Jan 2008

My Love/Hate Relationship with Probability

and, specifically, counting. UGH. It is incredibly counterintuitive, and what seems obvious just simply isn’t the case. This is yet another case of “run the numbers, stupid.” And if you don’t know how, stop forming your opinion, right now. You have no hope of getting a good estimate.
 Probability Intuition:
Last quarter I taught discrete math. One [...]