Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Coin spinning, flipping, standing OR How to bias 'randomness' (Part I)

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A few weeks ago, Zane Lamprey  broke the Guinness Book of World Records record for "Longest live audio broadcast streamed over the inte...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Why the Stanley Cup Finals Don't Have Shootouts

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It's Stanley Cup Finals time, and that means it is time to look at some hockey numbers. (borrowed from  http://www.printactivities...
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Distribution of birthdays and the availability heuristic

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My birthday was this week, as were a number of my friends' birthdays.  I've always held the belief that the week or two surrounding ...
Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Contestants' Row: Position is Everything (Games of The Price is Right)

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Time for some more TPIR.  Today, we're going to talk about Contestants' Row again.  If you missed the first post on Contestants'...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Tetris pieces and you

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Over the span of my life I have played a lot of Tetris.  I actually just sat down and tried to figure out when I might have reasonably playe...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Rat Race, differential odds, and a practical application of binary math

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I seem to have a lot of favorite games on The Price is right, and Rat Race is definitely among them. I often don't like games where ...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

How to make histograms in Excel (XP, 2007, 2010, 2011) and Google Docs without any stupid add-ons: Part II

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So last week I left you with a number of random numbers and an idea of what we might be able to do with them.  That idea of what we might ...
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