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Posts by Chgg Clou‭

52 posts
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Q&A Intuitively, why's X% of Y = Y% of X?

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Chgg Clou‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by celtschk‭

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Q&A How to visualize division as splitting Dividend into B equal “partial groups”, then rounding up A partial groups to get a full group?

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Chgg Clou‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by leovt‭

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Q&A Why are you permitted to define $1 − 1 + 1 − 1 + . . .$?

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Chgg Clou‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by JRN‭

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Meta How can disabled users not be scorned for their disabilities?

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Chgg Clou‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A How does Pr(an event next year) $= 1/100$ imply Pr(at least one of these events occurring in the next 25 years) $> 1/5$?

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Chgg Clou‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Nat‭

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Q&A How can I re-write or supplant “basis point” UNambiguously?

0 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Chgg Clou‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Chgg Clou‭

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Q&A Why rational to be indifferent between two urns, when urn A has 50-50 red and white balls, but you don't know urn B's ratio?

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Chgg Clou‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by celtschk‭

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Meta Why does $ sometimes render as dollar sign successfully, but other times require escaping?

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Chgg Clou‭  ·  edited 3y ago by r~~‭

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Q&A Isn't "any, some, or all" redundant? Why not write just "any"?

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Chgg Clou‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Tim Pederick‭

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Q&A How to deduce which ETF is redundant? a of ETF1's holdings in ETF3, a of ETF2 in ETF3, b of ETF1 are in ETF2, b of ETF2 in ETF1.

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Chgg Clou‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Chgg Clou‭

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Q&A How can I intuit $\dfrac{a - b}{c - d} \equiv \dfrac{{\color{red}{-}}(b - a)}{{\color{red}{-}}(d - c)} \equiv \dfrac{b - a}{d - c}$?

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Chgg Clou‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Wolgwang‭

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Q&A How can Abraham Wald's approach lead you to ignore crucial features of a problem?

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Chgg Clou‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by JRN‭

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Q&A Why isn't $\Pr(diseased|+ test) = \dfrac{\text{number of true positives}}{\text{number of false positives}}$?

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Chgg Clou‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by Michael Hardy‭

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Q&A How's the outcome of airplane crashes almost always certain, but the probability is not? [closed]

0 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Chgg Clou‭  ·  edited 5y ago by Chgg Clou‭

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Q&A Why paradoxical to accept $3, and avoid betting on Dushanbe's temperature for a prize of $10?

0 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Chgg Clou‭  ·  edited 5y ago by thelast19digitsofpi‭

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Q&A What was Justice Scalia's mathematical mistake in Penry v. Lynaugh (1989)?

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Chgg Clou‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Derek Elkins‭

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Q&A Why mustn't the proportion of smokers among married people be the same as the proportion of smokers in the whole population?

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Chgg Clou‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by r~~‭

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Q&A How to intuit : married smokers × all people < all smokers × all married people ?

0 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Chgg Clou‭

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Q&A How to quantify "married people are less likely than the average person to smoke", "smokers are less likely than the average person to be married"?

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Chgg Clou‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by thelast19digitsofpi‭

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Q&A What kind of logic does “Logic in the Theory and Practice of Lawmaking” employ?

0 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Chgg Clou‭

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Q&A How can I visualize dividing by a fraction as partial and full groups?

0 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Chgg Clou‭

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Q&A How can I visualize this Compound Interest Chart with indefinite integrals?

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Chgg Clou‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by r~~‭

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Q&A How to compare lotteries, when one has highest probability of winning the jackpot, but another the highest Expected Value?

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Chgg Clou‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by tommi‭

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Q&A Intuitively, what does the 1 mean in $\dfrac{a}{b} = \dfrac{1}{\frac{b}{a}}$?

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Chgg Clou‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by nalply‭

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Q&A How to intuit P(win the same lottery twice) $= p^{2}$ vs. P(win the same lottery twice | you won the lottery once) $= p$?

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Chgg Clou‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Chgg Clou‭

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