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re: what math do you use regularly?
Posted on 10/8/20 at 10:45 am to CockyTime
Posted on 10/8/20 at 10:45 am to CockyTime
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Can someone please provide a real life situation outside of work where you would ever use pi, sine/cosine or any trig concepts, or my personal favorite standard deviation or whatever other BS I memorized temporarily in statistics class back then?
People with a good understanding of what a standard deviation is (not necessarily being able to calculate it) will be getting more useful information from the current Hurricane Delta prediction cone than people who don't have that.
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Posted on 10/8/20 at 11:17 am to tokenBoiler
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People with a good understanding of what a standard deviation is
My physics professor in college graded on a Standard Deviation curve.
+ 1.5 SD from average = A
+1.49999-0.500001 SD from average = B
+/- 0.5 SD from average = C
-0.499999 - 1.5 SD from average = D
Less than 1.5 SD from average = F
It was very easy to pass the class (about an 93% chance), but very hard to make an A (only about 2 students in a class of 30 could expect to make an A). That was OK with me. I once have a 40 something on one of his test, and it was a SOLID C.
This post was edited on 10/8/20 at 11:20 am
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