Really annoyed me that the kiddos voted to not switch, and they got the car. Getting children to understand that 1/3 is smaller than 1/2 is hard enough. I’m going to program my own evil version that only wins on switch the first time next time I do this.

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[–] [S] 14 points 8 months ago* (5 children)

That’s a good idea. I went with redoing the sim a few times and then also doing stuff with a plinko game, which seemed to help them get it.

The first couple plinko runs also were really annoying for bellcurve purposes tho.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I explained this to my programmer colleagues. My explanation was lacking so they wrote a numerical simulation and ran it a few million times to be sure.

    They were convinced.

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