Probability

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probability

Title text: I want to thank the patreon typo squad, but it was a math error, so maybe it's a matho?

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Suppose there's a square with a side length between o and 4 units.

You don't know its length and you don't know the distribution of probabilities.

Reasonably, you say it's equally likely to be more or less than two units long.

0-4

4

You'd also like to know its area. Since area is the side length squared, you know it must be between o and 16, with an equal chance of being greater or lesser than 8.

But a square with an area of 8 has a side length of 252, not 2!

0->4

0-316

So which is it, mother fuckers?

Which is it?

I thought philosophy of probability would be the easiest a in a math degree, and now I'm not even sure reality is real.

"reality"? That's just a convenient assumption for calculations.

Caption: smbc-comics.com

Votey Transcript

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(literally nothing is wrong with this line of reasoning, so there is no need to email me)

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