A statistical question

2017-12-17 at 6:49 PM UTC

#21

The Self Taught Man Black Hole

I just completed some extraordinary science, preliminary results of which indicate that if you chug a bottle of robitussin blue a week you have a 50% chance of living longer than average.

2017-12-17 at 6:55 PM UTC

#22

benny vader YELLOW GHOST

Originally posted by Issue313 I just completed some extraordinary science, preliminary results of which indicate that if you chug a bottle of robitussin blue a week you have a 50% chance of living longer than average.

average scandinavian or average african ?????

2017-12-17 at 8:03 PM UTC

#23

Zanick motherfucker [my p.a. supernal goa]

Originally posted by mmQ Because I'm dumb.

So take this statement - *people who eat spicy foods nearly every day have a 14% of living longer.*

Whether it's true or not, does it imply that NOT eating spicy food gives you an 86% chance of living longer? Or does it mean out of a bunch of spicy and non-spicy eaters, the non-spicy will always have a 0% chance of living longer and the spicy people will have at least 14%?

I'm probably overthinking it. Idk. Help me out here.

Suppose that, from your statement, we extract its most basic conditional statement: if a person eats spicy food daily, then they will live 14% longer. This is expressed more concisely in symbolic proofs as 'If A, then B.'

By negating both clauses of that statement, we yield the inverse: if a person does not eat spicy food daily, then they will not live 14% longer. Or: if not A, then not B.

So it really depends on the subject matter. The nice thing about rendering this problem in symbols is that it allows us to generalize it to just about any other similar circumstances: If I fuck OP's mom, then I will get a disease.

Now let's take the inverse of that statement: if I do not fuck OP's mom, then I will not get a disease. See the problem here? I can't know that I won't get a disease just because I didn't fuck your mother, because there are millions upon millions of other mothers in the world and they could all, in theory, be carrying transmittable diseases.

So, in observing the structure of this statement and its inverse, we establish the principle that the inverse of a true conditional proposition is not itself implicitly true.

2017-12-17 at 8:10 PM UTC

#24

benny vader YELLOW GHOST

Originally posted by Zanick Suppose that, from your statement, we extract its most basic conditional statement: if a person eats spicy food daily, then they will live 14% longer. This is expressed more concisely in symbolic proofs as 'If A, then B.'

By negating both clauses of that statement, we yield the inverse: if a person does not eat spicy food daily, then they will not live 14% longer. Or: if not A, then not B.

So it really depends on the subject matter. The nice thing about rendering this problem in symbols is that it allows us to generalize it to just about any other similar circumstances: If I fuck OP's mom, then I will get a disease.

Now let's take the inverse of that statement: if I do not fuck OP's mom, then I will not get a disease. See the problem here? I can't know that I won't get a disease just because I didn't fuck your mother, because there are millions upon millions of other mothers in the world and they could all, in theory, be carrying transmittable diseases.

So, in observing the structure of this statement and its inverse, we establish the principle that the inverse of a true conditional proposition is not itself implicitly true.

your saying alot for having said nothing

2017-12-17 at 8:11 PM UTC

#25

Zanick motherfucker [my p.a. supernal goa]

Originally posted by benny vader your saying alot for having said nothing

I think that in reality, I've answered the question so completely that you're terrified of the implications.

2017-12-17 at 8:14 PM UTC

#26

mmQ Lisa Turtle

Maxwell Confusioned

2017-12-17 at 9:02 PM UTC

#27

benny vader YELLOW GHOST

Originally posted by Zanick I think that in reality, I've answered the question so completely that you're terrified of the implications.

also the ramifications

2017-12-17 at 10:56 PM UTC

#28

mashlehash victim of incest [my perspicuously dependant flavourlessness]

What would happen to someone's anus if you poured salsa down the way?

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