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To: ransomnote

Even in a best case scenario, it comes down to M&Ms. I give you a bowl of 100 M&Ms. 5 are poison. You don’t know which ones. How many would you eat?


889 posted on 11/02/2021 10:42:16 PM PDT by Ymani Cricket ( "Pressure Makes Diamonds" ~General Patton)
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To: Ymani Cricket
I give you a bowl of 100 M&Ms. 5 are poison. You don’t know which ones. How many would you eat?

Brilliant analogy. I love simple illustrations that get straight to the heart of a statistics problem.

964 posted on 11/03/2021 6:40:22 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Ymani Cricket
I give you a bowl of 100 M&Ms. 5 are poison. You don’t know which ones. How many would you eat?

Funny how quickly that meme vanished when it was directed against terrorists...

966 posted on 11/03/2021 6:44:27 AM PDT by null and void (The Washington DC Swamp, Where Bottom Feeders Are Apex Predators!)
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