Another Crappy Blog... by Jason Winters

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Crazy weather channel math.


Notice anything odd about The Weather Channel's forecast for tomorrow? "A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible... chance of precipitation... 0% ! WTF weather channel? Talk about covering your ass! I wonder if any of the forecasters at The Weather Channel have taken a class in statistics. As I learned it, a 0% chance means that that something is not possible!

2 Comments:

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    By Blogger Oliver, at 6:45 AM  

  • hate to tell you but things with probability zero do happen!!!!!

    Take a number uniformly distributed between 1 and 2. [real number].

    What is the probability of picking exactly 1.5? Well it's ZERO!

    There is a non-zero probability of picking a small range from [1.5-eps, 1.5+eps]. As eps->0, so does the probability!

    Same argument applies for ANY integer between -infinity,+infinity]. (Infinitely more reals than ints).

    By Anonymous Gadha, at 11:58 PM  

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