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Topic	A probability question
Yellow 08/25/18 5:03:45 AM #21:	darkknight109 posted... -If the rock does not contain rare minerals, the device is less precise. 90% of the time it will correctly identify that the rock has no rare minerals; however, 10% of the time it will return a false positive reading and report that the rock contains rare minerals. Fuck, I didn't realize that margin of error scaled with the amount of rocks you would have to go through. It's a bad deal in all situations. https://imgur.com/H39CG7G I am ashamed. <cite>Yellow posted [p:907511324] in A probabil... [t:76935171]...</cite> <quote><cite>darkknight109 posted...</cite> <quote>-If the rock does not contain rare minerals, the device is less precise. 90% of the time it will correctly identify that the rock has no rare minerals; however, 10% of the time it will return a false positive reading and report that the rock contains rare minerals.</quote> Fuck, I didn't realize that margin of error scaled with the amount of rocks you would have to go through. It's a bad deal in all situations. https://imgur.com/H39CG7G I am ashamed.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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