The Streak That Statisticians Said Never Existed - An RC Inspired by IIM Indore
A famous paper told basketball fans that streaks were an illusion. A later paper found a flaw in the arithmetic that produced the verdict.
GRADFLIX Editors4 Qs · Hard
Logic & Probability passages for CAT RC
Valid reasoning, chance and evidence, and the common ways intuition goes wrong.
2 long-form logic & probability essays, written at the density of real CAT passages, each with CAT, XAT and GMAT-style questions and explanations. For real exam passages, practise the solved CAT RC PYQs; for a daily routine, see CAT RC practice.
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Abraham Wald and the Missing Bullet Holes
The statistician Abraham Wald is credited with telling the military to armour the parts of its bombers that showed no bullet holes. The advice sounds backwards until a reader asks which planes were never seen.
Abhishek Leela Pandey1 Qs · Medium