i've only scrolled for a minute in the comment section and i can say with confidence that the statistics is that 99% of the comments are about no metric system
That's nice, this was produced in a region that uses imperial for people that use imperial. While I understand and applaud your efforts to further your own education through online lectures, the attitude you demonstrate is childish and you should be ashamed of your conduct. I personally do the conversions when operating outside of my normal system and would expect you to respectfully so the same.
According to which statistics? And from where and why? The whole argument over which statistics are more and less valid come from examining their sources and uses. If you're speaking about how the United States and (correct me if I'm wrong) Malaysia are a couple of the only countries to routinely practice the imperial system as their main choice of measurement, then perhaps you could be right. Or maybe you mean that the metric system is more used than the imperial system as a result of its simplicity and understandable scale in the scientific community. However, one might argue that the imperial system was established as a result of the mathematical thinking discussed in this video, as miles are made to cover much longer distances overall than kilometers. While kilometers are the more traditional way of viewing things and more universally accepted, kilometers are relatively small in a mathematical sense for measuring large landmasses effectively. You'll learn in this series that just using "Acording to statistics" as you spell it is not sufficient enough of a resource to follow. Remember: statistics can be easily used to mislead in the proper (or perhaps improper) context.
+Goldenblade14 Wait what? you can survey your own statistics on this one. India and China both use metric and only the USA uses Imperial. There is no "perhaps" about it the USA only makes up ~4.3% of the worlds population. Even if you add a few minor nations and non standard individuals in officially SI countries your never going to even come close to a majority here. Statistically, more PEOPLE use Metric rather than Imperial. By a huuuuuge margin.
i'm not into numbers at all like i tend to just zone out when i hear numbers just thrown into a sentence and then i get confused or stressed (obviously i cant stand math) but.... this video was definitely interesting and i did not zone out for one second. super informative and helpful! i'm currently struggling in a class teaching SPSS for Research Methods and i didn't have much background in stats (i forgot about it honestly) so thank you so much! will continue watching this series :)
Great video and an awesome explanation of how understanding mathematics help us visualize the world better. But, my god, please, could you at least put a conversion to the Metric System on the animations?
That depends on your definition is literacy... The ability to read and write? Or the ability to read and write in a collegiate level arena? Elitism is, by the way, a toxicity I enjoy squashing. Have a lovely day!
What would crash course arithmetic be? I don't think there's much content there unless you aim the content at a much younger audience? OP: Maths is too large a topic to just discuss so they're probably splitting it up into bite size subjects
I'm a huge fan of Crash Course and I've been looking forward to Statistics for a long time. This video in particular captures so much of what the world and individuals alike need to know to tackle problems and I feel it does a fair job of putting numbers into context. HOWEVER; This episode was very noticeably American-centric (and not just the lack of metric units). Statistically, your view demographics may be largely American, but it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Firstly, you alienate the rest of the world. Secondly, if American audiences are only exposed to content tailored to the American psyche, Americans will make conclusions about the world based on their American experiences without realizing that less than 5% of people on Earth are American. If all content they've ever known was either American or a direct comparison of America to something else, you lose so much of the context that is so important to understanding statistics. This video's bias sits as a counter to the whole point of the video. Please keep this in mind going forward.
Crash courses are really really great. I watch them with my kids in Pakistan. The only PROBLEM. everyone speaks super fast and it becomes difficult to process information. Please add a speed control button like in most RU-vid videos. Many thanks.
I thought when Adriene started talking about the fighter jets, she'll mention survivorship bias. Will it be mentioned in a later episode on statistical fallacies? Also, this course is going really good!
I took Stats (twice) because I had to, but I'm a philosophy, religious studies, music, fine arts, and languages kind of person. I'm watching these videos to see whether redemption for the field is possible in my mind, but I had two very bad professors in the subject and since I'm also a people-person, that kind of left a lasting impression.
@4.40ish - exponents are a useful way of understanding large numbers, promoting understanding of exponents rather than writing them off as misleading might be a better way of teaching statistics?
All is question of exposure : sure, compared to all the deaths in US, dying from lightning strike is rare, but if you stand in the forest on a raining day under a metallic umbrella, you will definitely increase your chance.
I'm more excited about this episode than any before...although, this may be due to the cumulative effect all these series have had on me. BTW I think it's interesting how people think they are first watching videos on youtube..when you have to realize hundreds of people are watching simultaneously, but still people take the counter at face value. It's just weird to me.
Reminds me of the Birthday Problem, which we did early in my high school stats class. The odds are surprisingly low for two people in a group sharing a birthday...
I would argue that simply being comfortable with numbers does not alone constitute numeracy. Competency with basic mathematics must also be an integral aspect of numeracy. Frankly, a deeper understanding of statistics requires even higher mathematical knowledge and competence in certain circumstances, such as understanding and implementing some statistical concepts such as chi squared and other forms higher statistical analysis !!!
As someone who recently discovered this series and am thoroughly enjoying it: it seems that approx. 98% of the commenters here use the metric system. But, as someone who watches wayyyy too much American politics on TV: "it's a sad commentary on our lives that only 2% of all RU-vidrs know how to measure anything at all." Yours Truly, Kellyanne Conway. ;)
Decent start. Looking forward to more. Like how they use so many examples though I kind of hated the news desk thing. That was a really interesting story but the way it was told kind of ruined it :P
I think mention of circumstance increasing or decreasing probability is warranted. It is often misleading to tell someone they have an X probability of getting bitten by a poisonous snake, when they live in a place with many poisonous snakes, and go hiking every day. The average probability is very skewed by the billions of people living in and around cities which have all but destroyed natural snake habitats. The same is true for all sorts of other risks. The average is skewed by circumstance.
When will you get to the center and most important part of statistics? By that I mean standard deviation, stochastic variables, variance and the binomial formula?
there will be massive medical breakthroughs, aubrey degrey is working on it plus others are too, and he says if you are under 40 you have good chance of living to 1000+ years sounds crazy, but the single biggest thing that can make sure something happens, is if alot smart people with good funding are working on it..and they are
I love the information provided in the "News Desk" section -- it's super interesting! However, it feels really weird and overly dramatic. I think a more down-to-earth presentation would sound better. Just my opinion.
This reminds me of the Chinese fortune cookie problem. In Canada they have a lotto called 6-49. Or in combinatronics 49 choose 6. Or 13.9 million combinations In many Chinese restaurants they give out fortune cookies with your bill. People would use these numbers for picking lotto numbers. Of course there was no better chance to win then using any other 6 numbers then the 6 that was on the fortune cookie. What people did not realize was the printer of the fortune cookies was lazy and they did not have a random number generator for the six numbers. So the printer printed a few thousand fortune cookies using the same 6 numbers. So purely by chance of course after many years the lotto number matching the fortune cookie came up. The lotto commission discovered many people won using the same 6 numbers and people were disappointed to share the jackpot with many others. At first the commission suspected fraud but soon found out that people were using the numbers on the fortune cookie. The commission talked to the printer and asked them to use more random numbers when printing fortune cookies. So the advise in Canada is to NOT use numbers from fortune cookies because it decrease your chance of sharing the jackpot.
"Statistics is math". Hmm is it? I think of statistics using math in the same way as, e.g., physics using math: as a tool. (Not a subfield, that is) Great video!
