Math with Bad DrawingsCartoon Archive

Law of Large Numbers (Doctor)

April 9, 2019

A doctor prescribes more coin flips to a penny who feels 'entirely heads': the law of large numbers as medicine.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019-04-09-law-of-large-numbers/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

Penny: "Doctor, I feel like I'm entirely heads." Doctor: "I'm prescribing 100 flips. If that doesn't work, try 1000."

Topics
Probability › Law of Large NumbersProbability › Coin FlipsProbability › Experimental vs. Theoretical Probability
Level
Middle SchoolHigh SchoolAP Statistics
Themes
PunsMoney & Shopping