/sci/ - Science & Math

It's an awesome bug.

But seriously, it's a caterpillar.

They are the only bugs I like really. The rest are weird, but caterpillars have a friendly demeanour about them,

>>4757048

chem math is fairly basic to be honest, there are chem math workbooks, I haven't got any myself yet, but there's plenty of them out there on the cheap if you search amazon

I think the common understanding of probability theory when it comes to unknown outcomes is totally misunderstood and the vast majority of people in an exam would select the wrong answer out of 'textbook neurosis' without actually considering the question properly. A probability expert should get in here and explain it the caveats.

I think the answer is actually this.

The probability is unknown. (1)
The outcomes are not equally likely because the probability is unknown. (2)

This means that stock answers involving dies, cards or coins are not applicable because the outcomes are a different *type* of unknown.

i.e. you know there is 52 cards in a pack in a card question in probability theory, but you don't know outcomes are equal because the probability of the probabilities themselves is unknown.

However, I would argue this is majorly unintuitive and I'm not certain that most student of probability theory differentiate between these two circumstances.

A major detriment on the stock exchange I would imagine.