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.
>
>

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