Probability Estimate: Wiggle Your Ears Can you wiggle your ears? Use the students in your statistics class (or a group of friends) to estimate the percentage of people who can wiggle their ears. How can your result be thought of as an estimate for the probability that a person chosen at random can wiggle his or her ears? Comment: National statistics indicate that about 13% of Americans can wiggle their ears (Source:

Bernice Kanner, Are You Normal?, St. Martins Press, New York).

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