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Rath on 07 February 2010
dunno001 said:
Rath said:
5/6 isn't that impressive though. There's like a 11% chance (I think, haven't done stats in a while) that they'd get 5 or 6 by randomly choosing answers.

It's a little over 3%, actually. (I want to say 3.125%.)

As for the subject, it's interesting to see how we're learning more about the mind. I've heard several places say that we only use 10% of our brain, so if we can find a way to tap into even part of that other 90%...

My statistics must be awful (last did it in high school), can somebody point out what I'm doing wrong?

I figure there are 2^6 possible paths, all with equal probability and 7 paths where there are 5 or 6 right. 7/(2^6)=0.109.



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dunno001 on 07 February 2010
Rath said:
dunno001 said:
Rath said:
5/6 isn't that impressive though. There's like a 11% chance (I think, haven't done stats in a while) that they'd get 5 or 6 by randomly choosing answers.

It's a little over 3%, actually. (I want to say 3.125%.)

As for the subject, it's interesting to see how we're learning more about the mind. I've heard several places say that we only use 10% of our brain, so if we can find a way to tap into even part of that other 90%...

My statistics must be awful (last did it in high school), can somebody point out what I'm doing wrong?

I figure there are 2^6 possible paths, all with equal probability and 7 paths where there are 5 or 6 right. 7/(2^6)=0.109.

I stand corrected; you've probably done it more recently than I. I forgot about the variable of the irrelevant value's location, and erringly went with a 1/2^5 distribution, failing to account for the allowance of a slush spot. Sorry about that.



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