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1-What is the chance of winning the car if one switches the initial choice of doors in the Monty Hall's game? 1/3 1/2 2/3 1

1-What is the chance of "winning" the car if one switches the initial choice of doors in the Monty Hall's game?

1/3
1/2
2/3
1

2-John Allen Paulos uses an example of what industry to showcase how easy it is to mislead with numbers?

Police
A stock market
Political office
Department of Health

3-What is the reason given by Gigerenzer about why Americans have a higher chance of dying in car accidents then Europeans?

American drive faster
American drive more, due to the lack of public transportation
European countries are smaller
American drivers drink and driv

4-Dr. Spiegelhalter suggests that change is just chance. But some suggest that there two distinct ways to look at chance. What are they?

Good chance = Luck

Bad chance = Fate

Good chance = Success

Bad chance = Failure

Good chance = Luck

Bad chance = Unlucky

Good chance = Probability

Bad chance = Statistics

5-What is the number of people that should be collected together to get at least one common birthday?

5
23
187
367

6-What does 50 percent mean?

One-quarter
Four out of ten
Every fortieth person
It depends on how many people are in the survey

7-What was the reason for the birth of the study of probability?

Need to make predictions for weather patterns
Gambling
Banking
Trade

Where does Dr. David Spiegelhalter work?

Harvard
Oxford
Cambridge
MIT

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