/sci/ - Science & Math

Mathematicans formally introduced the so called "club filter" to better cope with the fact that they won't get into the cool clubs.

On a more serious note, in questions of global population health care, the friendship paradox explains that it's more effective not to vaccinate a group of people, but rather to ask these people to each randomly name a friend and then vaccinate these.

*too lazy to post the respective wikipedia links*

>>4604650
sure, post it.

Also, I don't think learning that you'll not use it. If not directly, you still got more understanding which helps understanding other things.