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Episode 9: The Maths of Privilege
Manage episode 200724020 series 1914206
What starts as an informal chat with no planned focus becomes, at one point, a discussion (by two comedians with no maths background) of the difference in chances for a group seen as a whole, and the chances for any individual member of that group. Along the way we talk about comedian Sofie Hagen's recent mini-twitterstorm about an ad by Cancer Research UK, and an incredibly abstract example involving a lottery where black people are given more tickets than white people. This lottery does not exist, as far as we're aware.
WARNING: CONTAINS OFF-THE-CUFF MATHS.
This is in no way influenced by the fact that neither of us is ever on Mock The Week.
Sofie's original tweet here: https://twitter.com/SofieHagen/status/968841936906981376
Definition of a bell-curve here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution - not to be confused with the book 'The Bell Curve', which we haven't touched yet, but may at some point.
45 episodes
Manage episode 200724020 series 1914206
What starts as an informal chat with no planned focus becomes, at one point, a discussion (by two comedians with no maths background) of the difference in chances for a group seen as a whole, and the chances for any individual member of that group. Along the way we talk about comedian Sofie Hagen's recent mini-twitterstorm about an ad by Cancer Research UK, and an incredibly abstract example involving a lottery where black people are given more tickets than white people. This lottery does not exist, as far as we're aware.
WARNING: CONTAINS OFF-THE-CUFF MATHS.
This is in no way influenced by the fact that neither of us is ever on Mock The Week.
Sofie's original tweet here: https://twitter.com/SofieHagen/status/968841936906981376
Definition of a bell-curve here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution - not to be confused with the book 'The Bell Curve', which we haven't touched yet, but may at some point.
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