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Hey, at least it is not Intelligent Design!
Category: Education • Humor • Science Education
Posted on: September 22, 2006 12:13 AM, by Coturnix
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This is rather disturbing.
Posted by: Sam Zaydel | September 22, 2006 12:58 AM
What a waste!
Looks like that would have been a perfect time to demonstrate how to do a Chi^2 test. Years ago in intro statistics, we actually DID this, except we used M&E&3&W's[1] instead of "Skittels"[sic]. At the time I hadn't realized that M&M/Mars intentionally put different proportions of the colors in the bags, and was disturbingly pleased at being given actual real-world application of a mathematical technique.
[1] - Which one they are depends on their orientation, after all. They're only "M's" if they're facing a certain way...
Posted by: SMC | September 22, 2006 2:05 AM