/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11636813
well we are gods compared to ants.

How do people develop fetishes like masochism anyway? Where does it come from?

Will trannies be allowed on Mars?

Are our feelings and associations with music completely formed by society or are they innate, and if they are, to what extent?
For example, could a bubbly theme played over a dramatic and emotional death in a movie ever feel right or is it just inherently wrong?

'Fractal recursive intelligence' is redundant redundant.

Is people claiming that medicine is "not science" really just butthurt toward the fact that MDs make more than twice what PhDs make?

Answer: S starts with 50 cents.

The proof is as follows:

Let A,B, and C denote the amount of pennies Andrew, Bartholomew, and Claudius initilly possess respectively. Then, by round:

R1: (A,B,C)
R2: (2A,B-A,C)
R3: (2A,2(B-A),C+A-B)
R4: (A+B-C,2 (B-A,2(C+A-B)).

The condition that R1=R4 implies that:

1: A+B-C=A; B=C
2: 2(B-A)=B; B=2A.

Hence, in terms of A, R4=(A,2A,2A); if only one person starts with 50 cents, it must logically be A since B=C whenever R4=R1.

Thus, A begins with 50 cents.

QED

Feel free to input A=50 into both R1 and R4 to convince yourself of this proof if you've yet to be persuaded.

Why direct proportionality is defined as y=kx where k is a constant instead of y=k+x?

>>9306223
>we are talking about about green jelly beans that give you real obvious cancer with a probability of 100%
I never stated that.

>we cannot do hypothesis testing
Yes people do hypothesis testing on similar hypotheses every day. Look how many studies there are that are variations of "does coffee cause with cancer" or "does diet coke cause diabetes". Ok fine, most of them are correlation studies, but they could be randomized experiments in principle.

>if you take 100,000 parallel universes
I never said anything about "parellel universes" which may or may not exist. I said "hypothetical worlds" which is a convenience that makes bayesian math easier to understand.

>"1 in 100,000 green jelly beans cause cancer"
No that is not the hypothesis that was being discussed. You've confused P(hypothesis) with P(cancer|jellybean). The percentage of jelly beans that cause cancer is irrelevant. All that's stated is some randomized experiment was done, and found a correlation between cancer and jellybeans. And it had a p value of 0.05. The exact correlation isn't stated and is irrelevant.

>The problem is that we can't take measurements from parallel universe... we have to work with n=1...
Alright I give up here. Your interpretation of my comment is so confused that I don't even know where to begin. I was just explaining the absolute basics of how to do a bayesian calculation. Please look up Bayes theorem and learn it.

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