just realized that most of my probability knowledge comes from competitive pokemon
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Dude, same!—I majored in stats, TA’d an intro probability course (https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/stat110/home ), and I’ve been a data scientist for 5 years—and BY FAR most of my probability wisdom comes from loving games since I was little. *TBF, the linked course did a lot of game-like reasoning
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Competitive Pokemon has such a good learning curve for stats. A gentle intro at first - "big numbers happen more". Slowly cascades into conditional probabilities (e.g. flinch chance for rock slide), neg. binomial distributions (how many turns until will-o-wisp burns? ...
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