People we want to apologize for involving everyone in a silly, immature conflict. We are enrolled at a major Ivy League college and our professor of American History insisted all 1300 hundred of us join Yahoo. We are instructed to read all his answers and vote for or against him, however, we have to defend our responses for credit. Therefore sometimes his answers get and have gotten 800 votes (first question of the year) after which we dressed down. He is such a funny warm teacher bringing in cookies and harasses everyone from the Dean to the janitor. Excuse me. There have been questions in the past and when addressed the individual(s) joined the professors fan-contacts. Then recently there was an individual who did just what we are doing advertising a purported cheat; except we have proof.
You are reasonable intelligent people and know what a bell curve is, apply that to the individual. These of you who know their math read on Hypergeometric Distribution: Probability theory is based on the notion of a "Bernoulli trial"
heck it will not take an equation. Assume we have F objects from which to choose. Of these F, M are successes and F-M are failures. Next, we conduct n Bernoulli trials - for example we draw n balls (5 for Powerball) from the machine. What we need to know is the probability of getting p successes and n-p failures in those n trials. To match all five white balls, for example, you calculate the probability of 5 successes and 0 failures in 5 trials. Each of these terms boils down to counting. To calculate the denominator, begin by realizing that there are F ways of selecting the first object, F-1, ways of selecting the second object, and so on to F-n ways of selecting the nth object. The total number of ways of making this selection, therefore, is F(F-1)(F-2)...(F-n). However, in our case the order of selection does not matter -- (1,2,3,4,5) is the same as (5,4,3,2,1). We need to adjust for the number of combinations that are identical save for order.
Therefore apply either to the individuals’ rate of "Best Answers" and you will find it is impossible to achieve such a rating. That is unless you have done exactly what he claimed others had done opened a multitude of aliases. If you check his answers it is the same individuals who ask a question then select him as "Best Answer" or he has them vote him. (Check all of his questions, you will the pattern. He answers to Tome_Legion, Zaneya, Eric, barik, catish, big_boss_man, mountain man, slick sam, x man to you, over yonder ; you see he has changed his name to Z for the question. Our computer class is tracking the IP on his addresses and turning it over to Yahoo. We would urge you to track what you see, make sure of what you are getting.
2007-05-28
04:41:17
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