Season
Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 What Is Statistics
- Season 1 Mathematical Thinking
- Season 1 Mean, Median, and Mode: Measures of Central Tendency
- Season 1 Measures of Spread
- Season 1 Charts Are Like Pasta - Data Visualization Part 1
- Season 1 Plots, Outliers, and Justin Timberlake: Data Visualization Part 2
- Season 1 The Shape of Data: Distributions
- Season 1 Correlation Doesn’t Equal Causation
- Season 1 Controlled Experiments
- Season 1 Sampling Methods and Bias with Surveys
- Season 1 Science Journalism
- Season 1 Henrietta Lacks, the Tuskegee Experiment, and Ethical Data Collection
- Season 1 Probability Part 1: Rules and Patterns
- Season 1 Probability Part 2: Updating Your Beliefs with Bayes
- Season 1 The Binomial Distribution
- Season 1 Geometric Distributions and The Birthday Paradox
- Season 1 Randomness
- Season 1 Z-Scores and Percentiles
- Season 1 The Normal Distribution
- Season 1 Confidence Intervals
- Season 1 How P-Values Help Us Test Hypotheses
- Season 1 P-Value Problems
- Season 1 Playing with Power: P-Values Pt 3
- Season 1 You Know I’m All About that Bayes
- Season 1 Bayes in Science and Everyday Life
- Season 1 Test Statistics
- Season 1 T-Tests: A Matched Pair Made in Heaven
- Season 1 Degrees of Freedom and Effect Sizes
- Season 1 Chi-Square Tests
- Season 1 P-Hacking
- Season 1 The Replication Crisis
- Season 1 Regression
- Season 1 ANOVA
- Season 1 ANOVA Part 2: Dealing with Intersectional Groups
- Season 1 Fitting Models Is like Tetris
- Season 1 Supervised Machine Learning
- Season 1 Unsupervised Machine Learning
- Season 1 Intro to Big Data
- Season 1 Big Data Problems
- Season 1 Statistics in the Courts
- Season 1 Neural Networks
- Season 1 War
- Season 1 When Predictions Fail
- Season 1 When Predictions Succeed
Crash Course Statistics - Season 1 Episode 16 Geometric Distributions and The Birthday Paradox
2.00 13 minutes Geometric probabilities, and probabilities in general, allow us to guess how long we'll have to wait for something to happen. Today, we'll discuss how they can be used to figure out how many Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans you could eat before getting the dreaded vomit flavored bean, and how they can help us make decisions when there is a little uncertainty - like getting a Pikachu in a pack of Pokémon Cards! We'll finish off this unit on probability by taking a closer look at the Birthday Paradox (or birthday problem) which asks the question: how many people do you think need to be in a room for there to likely be a shared birthday? (It's likely much fewer than you would expect!)
