On Monday January 3, aoga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > think, the branch of mathematics that has the highest ratio of people > > > who think that understand it to people to actually do (witness the > > > success of lotteries). > > ahh ... but the stock market is the worlds largest casino and how many people do you know who make money on stock markets. Now compare that with how many loose money on lotteries. Find out the ratio and ..... > > > Possibly. But not all of them teach probability at university level > > (and did so when they were 21, at the University of Cambridge to boot, > > and continued teaching pure math there at all subjects and all levels > > until the age of twenty-eight - so puhleeeze don't bother!). Apparently teaching probability at University doesn't necessary mean that you understand it. I cannot comment on your understanding, but if you ask google about the Monty Hall problem and include search terms like "professor" or "maths department" you will find plenty of (reported) cases of University staff not getting it. e.g. http://www25.brinkster.com/ranmath/marlright/montynyt.htm "Our math department had a good, self-righteous laugh at your expense," wrote Mary Jane Still, a professor at Palm Beach Junior College. Robert Sachs, a professor of mathematics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., expressed the prevailing view that there was no reason to switch doors. They were both wrong. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
