Little things that irk you.. (no swearing please)

[Dogg Thang]

Heh, far too much maths in that birthday paradox for me! At least I can make sense of the Monty Hall one - which actually seems pretty logical. The birthday one, though, isn't simple enough for me to either think it sounds wrong or right. But, with their equations, I'll take their word for it.

[EvilBoris]

Ordered a pizza from dominoes, but they left the pineapple on! Damn them!

[Dogg Thang]

Why did they put the pineapple on in the first place? Is that how they make pizzas? They put everything on and then remove the ingeredients you don't want?

[EvilBoris]

Yep, that's exactly how. I ordered a preset reggae reggae sauce one

[Dogg Thang]

Ah, good choice. Did you pick them off or eat them anyway?

[Mr Ono]

In ear headphone wires always tangled when I get them out of pocket or bag to use on Tube. Pain.

[koopatroopa90]

I *hated* the probability part of my comp sci degree, I didn't get a lot of this down until years after graduation (and I've almost certainly got something wrong in this thread already...)

I am so happy to have passed my stats exam this year. We actually had a probability question and it took me bloody ages - must have confused myself about 3 times whilst doing it! Just wish I'd passed my maths too as then I could be having fun now rather than falling asleep into a maths textbook...

[charlesr]

I failed the stats module in my first year. I thought it was all so easy I didn't bother revising and some stuff came up that I couldn't remember.

Since it was do not pass go module, I came back in the summer and did the retest after a bit of revision. Afterwards I was interrogated because they had assumed that somehow I had cheated - they said that if anything the retest was harder than the original paper and the fact that I'd got the best score they'd ever seen for the module compared to my previous fail-mark was tough for them to believe. I muttered something about the probability being the same etc.

A year later, I got up 30 mins into my (2nd year) exam and quit the course even though it was all pretty easy. Not sure why - it just wasn't my destiny.

I don't remember much, but the birthday thing is pretty obvious - it's not the chance of 1 person having the same birthday as 20 other people - it's the chance of 20 people having the same birthday as 19 other people all mixed up 19 times.

And the Monty Hall problem is also obvious once explained, although I didn't figure it out for myself.

Note: really clever stats tutors are never rich - knowing the odds doesn't help with the odds. The entire study of stats is about minimising risk, not about winning more than you lose.

[EvilBoris]

Ah, good choice. Did you pick them off or eat them anyway?

I ate them, they weren't too bad

[toythatkills]

Pineapple on pizza is awesome, but I do wonder where the idea to put it on there came from, and why it hasn't spread to other fruits. I'm gonna make an apple pizza.

[EvilBoris]

I can't say I'm a fan of fruit in my savoury food.Pork and apple sauce : weirdSweet and sour sauce with pineapple bits : weirdHam and pineapple pizza : weird

[dataDave]

I like it. I also like sweet and savoury, like syrup over bacon pancakes.

[Mayhem]

I like pineapple... I like anchovies. But neither should ever be put on a pizza

[EvilBoris]

I like it. I also like sweet and savoury, like syrup over bacon pancakes.

That concept melts my brain too. I went to. Gourmet restaurant in Iceland and they put cannula icecrean on salmon

[Flabio]

I can't stand sultanas in curry for some reason. Have to be careful if I'm ordering something mild like a korma because of that.