just realized that most of my probability knowledge comes from competitive pokemon
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i have taken college-level statistics courses
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Replying to @imhinesmi
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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...binomial distributions, expected value calculations (& estimates!), independent probabilities (and an idea of what sort of things are likely to be independent), etc. Most of this is all intuitively known stuff, so you know the concepts but not how to talk about them.
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But also I think any sort of competitive game with a high skill cap and exposed internals should be good for math, better the more math is actually baked in.
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