https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCjspXB5F4A The Mathematics of Crime and Terrorism The ever excellent Numberphile have just released a really interesting video looking at what mathematical models are used to predict terrorist attacks and crime. Whereas a Poisson distribution assumes that events that happen are completely independent, it is actually the case that one (say) burglary in a neighbourhood... Continue Reading →
The Watson Selection Task – a logical puzzle
The Watson Selection Task - a logical puzzle The Watson Selection Task is a logical problem designed to show how bad we are at making logical decisions. Watson first used it in 1968 - and found that only 10% of the population would get the correct answer. Indeed around 65% of the population make the... Continue Reading →