I remember seeing Prof. Shankar Venkatagiri having shown me a video of his on probability on Topper Learning. However that is a subscription based site.
Venky On Oct 29, 2012 2:30 AM, "Eugen Leitl" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 10:31:24PM +0200, Charles Haynes wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Venky <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > And since nobody has brought this up yet, my favourite example of the > > > counter intuitive probability puzzle: > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem > > > > > > I do not think you should expect to be able to explain conditional > > probability to a seven year old. > > You might even able to succeed, this time, but it's highly likely to > backfire long-term, unless that is a highly exceptional seven year > old (if it was, you'd already know, and how). > > I really think that you can only nudge, not push. If you keep > pushing, you make very obvious what your values are, and every > kid would want to avoid disappointing you, up to the point of > complete misery. And sustained misery leads to permanent revulsion. > > It's supposed to be fun, so I would try to keep it strictly fun. > >
