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Why do people used odds instead of probabilities? It just seems like a convoluted way to express a simple idea. It's not intuitive to me and I have to do calculation to get the probability so I can understand what they mean by the 'odds'.
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>>7778241
>Why do people used odds instead of probabilities?
>people
You mean Americans
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>>7778242
Unfortunately they use it here in the UK as well for betting.
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>>7778245
don't bet
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>>7778242
Americans also say "radical" instead of surd and "slope" instead of gradient. There's many more crimes against mathematics perprepatrated by Americans. They should be shot for calling a gradient a slope.
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>>7778241
That is so fucking gay.
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>>7778260
Just fucking realised it was two men. Op is literally a faggot.
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>>7778267
Are you [math]T R I G G E R E D[/math]?
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>>7778241
odds are ratios
probabilities are more specific
Lrn2probability
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>>7778258
>They should be shot for calling a gradient a slope.
Friend, slopes are for 1-D, gradients are for multiple dimensions. Is this different for yuropoors?
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>>7778241
Op can we have a sauce on that gif?
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>>7778625
The little spoon is Brent Corrigan, but I'm afraid I don't have any more details except this page: http://weheartit.com/entry/74999882.
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>>7778607
I was saying they express the same thing in a different way, but I see no intuition behind using 'odds' in the way you use them over probabilities.
I'm questioning the whole point of using odds, not just mindlessly learning a formula for something without a good purpose.
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>>7778611
>slopes are for 1-D
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