{"id":901,"date":"2007-11-23T16:38:27","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T08:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=901"},"modified":"2014-12-19T10:30:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T02:30:52","slug":"friday-math-movie-numb3rs-and-bayes-theorem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-numb3rs-and-bayes-theorem-901","title":{"rendered":"Friday math movie - NUMB3RS and Bayes&#8217; Theorem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are 2 related videos for your viewing pleasure this week.<\/p>\n<p>Here's Charlie (the main character in the NUMB3RS tv series) explaining the Monty Hall problem to his students. It has a good twist, of course. What you expect intuitively is not the best decision.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P9WFKmLK0dc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here is another explanation of the same thing from Ron Clarke (which has a bit of a Monty Python feel):<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mhlc7peGlGg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Baye's Theorem<\/h2>\n<p>Here's quite a good (if lengthy) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yudkowsky.net\/rational\/bayes\">explanation of Bayes' Theorem<\/a>. From the page's intro:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>... an excruciatingly gentle introduction.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There's a bunch of Java applets on that page that let you play with the concepts and investigate the meaning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-numb3rs-and-bayes-theorem-901#comments\" id=\"comms\">5 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie explains to his class about the Monty Hall problem, which involves Baye's Theorem from probability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}