I wish they had a math CC series starting from algebra or the basics. Crash course is really good at explaining things in a level most people understand. Maybe explaining why formulas are the way they are as opposed to going through a bunch of problems, but dissecting a problem and explaining why we're taking what steps as they solve it.
7.5 miles can help with that since (at least in the US) it corresponds to how people measure transport distances. So just think of it as how long it takes you to drive that far at your typical speed (say, on the highway so that traffic doesn't muddy things up).
i've only scrolled for a minute in the comment section and i can say with confidence that the statistics is that 99% of the comments are about no metric system
Roman Riesen what do you mean? As a computer science major i have had to study discrete mathematics, number theory, calculus, statistics and graph theory.
Great video and an awesome explanation of how understanding mathematics help us visualize the world better. But, my god, please, could you at least put a conversion to the Metric System on the animations?
That's nice, this was produced in a region that uses imperial for people that use imperial. While I understand and applaud your efforts to further your own education through online lectures, the attitude you demonstrate is childish and you should be ashamed of your conduct. I personally do the conversions when operating outside of my normal system and would expect you to respectfully so the same.
According to which statistics? And from where and why? The whole argument over which statistics are more and less valid come from examining their sources and uses. If you're speaking about how the United States and (correct me if I'm wrong) Malaysia are a couple of the only countries to routinely practice the imperial system as their main choice of measurement, then perhaps you could be right. Or maybe you mean that the metric system is more used than the imperial system as a result of its simplicity and understandable scale in the scientific community. However, one might argue that the imperial system was established as a result of the mathematical thinking discussed in this video, as miles are made to cover much longer distances overall than kilometers. While kilometers are the more traditional way of viewing things and more universally accepted, kilometers are relatively small in a mathematical sense for measuring large landmasses effectively. You'll learn in this series that just using "Acording to statistics" as you spell it is not sufficient enough of a resource to follow. Remember: statistics can be easily used to mislead in the proper (or perhaps improper) context.
+Goldenblade14 Wait what? you can survey your own statistics on this one. India and China both use metric and only the USA uses Imperial. There is no "perhaps" about it the USA only makes up ~4.3% of the worlds population. Even if you add a few minor nations and non standard individuals in officially SI countries your never going to even come close to a majority here. Statistically, more PEOPLE use Metric rather than Imperial. By a huuuuuge margin.
i'm not into numbers at all like i tend to just zone out when i hear numbers just thrown into a sentence and then i get confused or stressed (obviously i cant stand math) but.... this video was definitely interesting and i did not zone out for one second. super informative and helpful! i'm currently struggling in a class teaching SPSS for Research Methods and i didn't have much background in stats (i forgot about it honestly) so thank you so much! will continue watching this series :)
That depends on your definition is literacy... The ability to read and write? Or the ability to read and write in a collegiate level arena? Elitism is, by the way, a toxicity I enjoy squashing. Have a lovely day!
Speaking of Thinking Mathematically, the textbook of the same name by Robert Blitzer is absolutely amazing for learning “useful” mathematics and developing numeracy. We used it in a class I took for my degree. I’ve even seen it help people who have a genuine fear of basic mathematics. I can’t recommend it enough.
A representation of it, but it's not exactly a normal curve. You can tell, because there are straight line segments in there, which shouldn't be there if it was actually a gaussian curve.
What would crash course arithmetic be? I don't think there's much content there unless you aim the content at a much younger audience? OP: Maths is too large a topic to just discuss so they're probably splitting it up into bite size subjects
I'm a huge fan of Crash Course and I've been looking forward to Statistics for a long time. This video in particular captures so much of what the world and individuals alike need to know to tackle problems and I feel it does a fair job of putting numbers into context. HOWEVER; This episode was very noticeably American-centric (and not just the lack of metric units). Statistically, your view demographics may be largely American, but it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Firstly, you alienate the rest of the world. Secondly, if American audiences are only exposed to content tailored to the American psyche, Americans will make conclusions about the world based on their American experiences without realizing that less than 5% of people on Earth are American. If all content they've ever known was either American or a direct comparison of America to something else, you lose so much of the context that is so important to understanding statistics. This video's bias sits as a counter to the whole point of the video. Please keep this in mind going forward.
I'm excited that you are putting this out there. It's been an interest of mine and it's all too often that I've had a hard time explaining this process of making decisions. I've used that airplane armor since reading an account written in the early 60s. So, here's my understanding of that version. 1. The background film clips are correct, they were bombers and bomber crews that they were discussing, not fighters and not just pilots. 2. At that altitude it was mostly damage from flack shrapnel, with only a few bullet holes from fighters. 3. It was a lowly pilot on a committee of generals and other high ranking brass who pointed out the flaw in the thinking and had the statistician brought in to answer the question. Having flown through the flack barrages and after seeing how his friends were killed and injured, the correct answer had become intuitive to him, if not to the brass.
This was produced in a region that uses imperial for people that use imperial. While I understand and applaud your efforts to further your own education through online lectures, the attitude you demonstrate is childish and you should be ashamed of your conduct. I personally do the conversions when operating outside of my normal system and would expect you to respectfully so the same.
Just posting my notes of whatever I could remember after seeing the video once. Making this a study habit - watch the full video and note what you recollect. Can be used as reference. Will be doing this for every video. Feedback appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Course 2: Mathematical Thinking Mathematical thinking helps us see the world for what it is and verify our gut feeling There is more a chance of dying while falling from a ladder than being bitten by rattlesnake It helps us weigh the odds properly and accordingly direct our efforts There's a law of large numbers- where seemingly improbable things become common occurrences due to the sheer volume of the data e.g. repeating of lottery numbers in consecutive weeks All this and more constitutes mathematical thinking which helps us make sense of the world around us and go beyond our gut feel
Someone posted a decent-sized comment here earlier about how 'mathematical thinking' is actually about seeing (effectively) advanced math in the everyday world (such as 'casually' i.e. as automatic practice picturing the differential equations of flow in a waterfall or graphing the algorithms of revenue for your store - to list a couple of his examples) rather than just getting a sense of scale for numbers. He's since deleted his comment (before I finished my reply, so I couldn't post it), but as I expect this series is likely to get a bunch of CC Math enthusiasts who're probably gonna be disappointed by the 'less-than-advanced' topics that I expect this series to cover, here's my response to that (and the sentiment behind it applies to anyone here who wishes for much more advanced topics, especially more math-heavy ones, to be covered in this series) - "That's more like mathematical thinking for mathematicians, not what most people refer to when they talk of making mathematical thinking more widespread in the general population (such as, say, by emphasizing it more in schools). This is CC Stats, not CC Maths. And it's aimed at general audiences and, more than that, meant to promote sound citizenship, not budding experts in algebraic geometry. Even most scientists don't argue for that level of thinking to be widespread, because it's simply unnecessary. The only argument I know of for pushing that agenda might be Feynmans' claim that it enhances our appreciation of the world - and 'spreading beauty' is hardly a priority for policy, especially given that most people seem quite content with much simpler forms of aesthetic appreciation. 'General' (if you like) mathematical thinking is certainly about "viewing the world through a certain lens--a lens governed by logic", however, that lens doesn't typically feature any differential equations, complex algorithms or linear programming - just a sense for perspective, scale and comparability. It's meant to be easily accessible (much like this course), not esoteric."
I never saw that post. But yes, it's called Crash Course for a reason. Most people can't and don't want to learn differential equations or heart surgery in a day. But a 10-minute video covering how to put odds in perspective, or how badass Ghengis Khan was, or how to identify life's Skinner boxes? I'll take that any day.
Came here for this. Thank you. Being part of the DFTBA-universe, you guys should know better than to ignore the measurement system used by scientists throughout the world...
This was produced in a region that uses imperial for people that use imperial. While I understand and applaud your efforts to further your own education through online lectures, the attitude you demonstrate is childish and you should be ashamed of your conduct. I personally do the conversions when operating outside of my normal system and would expect you to respectfully so the same.
This video was so insightful and through-provoking. The war story was truly a gift, I never would have considered that. Thank you for sharing! I am loving this series!
Crash courses are really really great. I watch them with my kids in Pakistan. The only PROBLEM. everyone speaks super fast and it becomes difficult to process information. Please add a speed control button like in most RUclips videos. Many thanks.
I thought when Adriene started talking about the fighter jets, she'll mention survivorship bias. Will it be mentioned in a later episode on statistical fallacies? Also, this course is going really good!
Thanks for this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cannot thank you enough, please never stop posting videos. Crash Course helps me get through another college course!!!!!
I took Stats (twice) because I had to, but I'm a philosophy, religious studies, music, fine arts, and languages kind of person. I'm watching these videos to see whether redemption for the field is possible in my mind, but I had two very bad professors in the subject and since I'm also a people-person, that kind of left a lasting impression.
If I'm not mistaken, the intuitive way of looking at numbers is on a logarithmic scale and interpreting it as a linear scale. In other words, we're better at telling the difference between log(x) and log(y) than we are with x and y.
As someone who recently discovered this series and am thoroughly enjoying it: it seems that approx. 98% of the commenters here use the metric system. But, as someone who watches wayyyy too much American politics on TV: "it's a sad commentary on our lives that only 2% of all RUclipsrs know how to measure anything at all." Yours Truly, Kellyanne Conway. ;)
All is question of exposure : sure, compared to all the deaths in US, dying from lightning strike is rare, but if you stand in the forest on a raining day under a metallic umbrella, you will definitely increase your chance.
I wish we would stop referring to American soldiers as heroes and romanticizing wars. Also saying American lives were saved while ignoring that improving the jets probably meant they were able to kill more people is very insensitive. The lives of your fellow nationals are not inherently more valuable that the lives of others around the world. This + the use of imperial system it is very clear who your target audience is. I wish you realized you are having an impact much larger than that, and these details are making foreign viewers feel alienated! Still, I love and recommend your work, Crash Course!
I think mention of circumstance increasing or decreasing probability is warranted. It is often misleading to tell someone they have an X probability of getting bitten by a poisonous snake, when they live in a place with many poisonous snakes, and go hiking every day. The average probability is very skewed by the billions of people living in and around cities which have all but destroyed natural snake habitats. The same is true for all sorts of other risks. The average is skewed by circumstance.
I'm more excited about this episode than any before...although, this may be due to the cumulative effect all these series have had on me. BTW I think it's interesting how people think they are first watching videos on youtube..when you have to realize hundreds of people are watching simultaneously, but still people take the counter at face value. It's just weird to me.
@4.40ish - exponents are a useful way of understanding large numbers, promoting understanding of exponents rather than writing them off as misleading might be a better way of teaching statistics?
Decent start. Looking forward to more. Like how they use so many examples though I kind of hated the news desk thing. That was a really interesting story but the way it was told kind of ruined it :P
Reminds me of the Birthday Problem, which we did early in my high school stats class. The odds are surprisingly low for two people in a group sharing a birthday...
I would argue that simply being comfortable with numbers does not alone constitute numeracy. Competency with basic mathematics must also be an integral aspect of numeracy. Frankly, a deeper understanding of statistics requires even higher mathematical knowledge and competence in certain circumstances, such as understanding and implementing some statistical concepts such as chi squared and other forms higher statistical analysis !!!
Well, the number of internet users in america is 290 million. the number of internet users in the world are 3.58 billion. Thus the probability of someone watching this video and using the non metric imperial units is 1 in 114. using miles is injustice to 113 in 114 viewers
I wish they had a math CC series starting from algebra or the basics. Crash course is really good at explaining things in a level most people understand. Maybe explaining why formulas are the way they are as opposed to going through a bunch of problems, but dissecting a problem and explaining why we're taking what steps as they solve it.
I feel Mathematical Thinking requires and deserves an entire series of it's own! Please consider the idea. I'm sure it would be a big hit.
You're completely right, I _can't_ picture a distance of 40,000 ft in my head.
And 7.5 miles don't help with that, either.
varana312 82,000 erect penises.
It's about a meter.
yeah but 12,07 kilometers are easier
7.5 miles can help with that since (at least in the US) it corresponds to how people measure transport distances. So just think of it as how long it takes you to drive that far at your typical speed (say, on the highway so that traffic doesn't muddy things up).
Mendicant Bias He's saying it doesn't help because he isn't American. Imperial measurements suck.
i've only scrolled for a minute in the comment section and i can say with confidence that the statistics is that 99% of the comments are about no metric system
im taking this next semester, and I’m watching this just to get an edge Lol
Same with me 😂😂
Can you use the metric system at least in brackets for international folks please.
*for normal people
As a computational social scientist, I'm loving that crash course is covering statistics and sociology.
What about computer science too? :D
Computational science usually contains more math than computer science.
Agustín Covarrubias Also great, but has less to do with my current work.
Roman Riesen what do you mean? As a computer science major i have had to study discrete mathematics, number theory, calculus, statistics and graph theory.
That story about Abraham gave me goosebumps, Incredible genius !
Great video and an awesome explanation of how understanding mathematics help us visualize the world better. But, my god, please, could you at least put a conversion to the Metric System on the animations?
I would suggest to deprive the videos of the imperial system altogether
Kriegerdammerung when I said America I meant USA not the continents
That is ill advised
If you need to choose the dumbest thing on Earth that'd be the Imperial closely followed by Trump.
(6:41) Note to self -- return to this video on May 2nd, 2:23 and 33 seconds PM, 2021... less than a year left before that hedgehog sneezes
"Stay out of sand holes." This is what I learned today.
Acording to statistics more people use the metric system than the imperial system. -T H E - M O R E - Y O U - K N O W -
But not the important people ...
That's nice, this was produced in a region that uses imperial for people that use imperial. While I understand and applaud your efforts to further your own education through online lectures, the attitude you demonstrate is childish and you should be ashamed of your conduct. I personally do the conversions when operating outside of my normal system and would expect you to respectfully so the same.
According to which statistics? And from where and why? The whole argument over which statistics are more and less valid come from examining their sources and uses. If you're speaking about how the United States and (correct me if I'm wrong) Malaysia are a couple of the only countries to routinely practice the imperial system as their main choice of measurement, then perhaps you could be right. Or maybe you mean that the metric system is more used than the imperial system as a result of its simplicity and understandable scale in the scientific community.
However, one might argue that the imperial system was established as a result of the mathematical thinking discussed in this video, as miles are made to cover much longer distances overall than kilometers. While kilometers are the more traditional way of viewing things and more universally accepted, kilometers are relatively small in a mathematical sense for measuring large landmasses effectively.
You'll learn in this series that just using "Acording to statistics" as you spell it is not sufficient enough of a resource to follow. Remember: statistics can be easily used to mislead in the proper (or perhaps improper) context.
+Goldenblade14 Wait what? you can survey your own statistics on this one. India and China both use metric and only the USA uses Imperial. There is no "perhaps" about it the USA only makes up ~4.3% of the worlds population. Even if you add a few minor nations and non standard individuals in officially SI countries your never going to even come close to a majority here.
Statistically, more PEOPLE use Metric rather than Imperial. By a huuuuuge margin.
Not to be boring, but your sample is too broad, you should rather think of who views crash course statistics in the first place.
I get my exercise running away from snakes. Kill two birds with one stone
Why not kill the snake with the stone, leave the birds alone, and then you won't need to run away?
If you kill the birds, you leave food for the snake.
You can literally do that - if the rock is big enough
watch my maths videos.
Hahah, this comment is great.
I never comment on CC videos, but this video I just LOVED. Keep up the amazing work, and thank you for educating the world!
Please put metric values together with the imperial ones... Cheers from Brazil! \0/
Please!
Metric!
Or you could just Google it
Saad Ghori the problem is that will ruin the experience... Pause every time I see an imperial number to convert it so I can understand it...
João Beno Schreiner Junior good point
i'm not into numbers at all like i tend to just zone out when i hear numbers just thrown into a sentence and then i get confused or stressed (obviously i cant stand math) but.... this video was definitely interesting and i did not zone out for one second. super informative and helpful! i'm currently struggling in a class teaching SPSS for Research Methods and i didn't have much background in stats (i forgot about it honestly) so thank you so much! will continue watching this series :)
The ability to make a comment on RUclips is by no means an indication of literacy.
Yes it is.
Chalk it up to wishful thinking.
That depends on your definition is literacy... The ability to read and write? Or the ability to read and write in a collegiate level arena? Elitism is, by the way, a toxicity I enjoy squashing. Have a lovely day!
Yup, you’re right
Speaking of Thinking Mathematically, the textbook of the same name by Robert Blitzer is absolutely amazing for learning “useful” mathematics and developing numeracy. We used it in a class I took for my degree. I’ve even seen it help people who have a genuine fear of basic mathematics. I can’t recommend it enough.
I've watched this series like 3 times but it's enjoyable
There is small request ,you have posted engineering and statistics but not mathematics. Please make mathematics videos for mathematics lovers
Is that shelf in the background a normal probability distribution?
A representation of it, but it's not exactly a normal curve. You can tell, because there are straight line segments in there, which shouldn't be there if it was actually a gaussian curve.
t distribution maybe.
I think this is as close as we can get to Crash Course: Maths
*Math ;)
or to Crash Course: Algebra; Calculus; Arithmetics....
What would crash course arithmetic be? I don't think there's much content there unless you aim the content at a much younger audience?
OP: Maths is too large a topic to just discuss so they're probably splitting it up into bite size subjects
McRaylie, it's a dialect thing. "Maths" is correct if you're speaking British English. "Math" is correct if you are speaking American English.
I'm a huge fan of Crash Course and I've been looking forward to Statistics for a long time. This video in particular captures so much of what the world and individuals alike need to know to tackle problems and I feel it does a fair job of putting numbers into context. HOWEVER;
This episode was very noticeably American-centric (and not just the lack of metric units). Statistically, your view demographics may be largely American, but it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Firstly, you alienate the rest of the world. Secondly, if American audiences are only exposed to content tailored to the American psyche, Americans will make conclusions about the world based on their American experiences without realizing that less than 5% of people on Earth are American. If all content they've ever known was either American or a direct comparison of America to something else, you lose so much of the context that is so important to understanding statistics.
This video's bias sits as a counter to the whole point of the video. Please keep this in mind going forward.
Still, my parents insist on buying lottery tickets.
"If you don't play, you can't win" - Dad.
Oy vey.
Nice opening. I am happy that this series is off to a good start.
Besides the use of antiquated systems of units.
I'm excited that you are putting this out there. It's been an interest of mine and it's all too often that I've had a hard time explaining this process of making decisions. I've used that airplane armor since reading an account written in the early 60s. So, here's my understanding of that version.
1. The background film clips are correct, they were bombers and bomber crews that they were discussing, not fighters and not just pilots.
2. At that altitude it was mostly damage from flack shrapnel, with only a few bullet holes from fighters.
3. It was a lowly pilot on a committee of generals and other high ranking brass who pointed out the flaw in the thinking and had the statistician brought in to answer the question. Having flown through the flack barrages and after seeing how his friends were killed and injured, the correct answer had become intuitive to him, if not to the brass.
Please. Use. Metric. System.
This was produced in a region that uses imperial for people that use imperial. While I understand and applaud your efforts to further your own education through online lectures, the attitude you demonstrate is childish and you should be ashamed of your conduct. I personally do the conversions when operating outside of my normal system
and would expect you to respectfully so the same.
But mah murica
40,230 ft = 12.26 km
+1
preid122o, using the imperial system is childish as it has no scientific value.
i love crash course. I love statistics/ I love the people who take time to make this. wow
Really looking forward to the episode(s) covering Bayes' Theorem.
i love the fact you said that we should illuminate our questions by numbers , in state of taking care of numbers . so fascinating
I don't like to complain but yeah... metrics would be nice
As a Bulgarian that example was unexpected! Quite funny, we are famous now.
Just posting my notes of whatever I could remember after seeing the video once.
Making this a study habit - watch the full video and note what you recollect.
Can be used as reference. Will be doing this for every video.
Feedback appreciated.
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Course 2: Mathematical Thinking
Mathematical thinking helps us see the world for what it is and verify our gut feeling
There is more a chance of dying while falling from a ladder than being bitten by rattlesnake
It helps us weigh the odds properly and accordingly direct our efforts
There's a law of large numbers- where seemingly improbable things become common occurrences due to the sheer volume of the data e.g. repeating of lottery numbers in consecutive weeks
All this and more constitutes mathematical thinking which helps us make sense of the world around us and go beyond our gut feel
Someone posted a decent-sized comment here earlier about how 'mathematical thinking' is actually about seeing (effectively) advanced math in the everyday world (such as 'casually' i.e. as automatic practice picturing the differential equations of flow in a waterfall or graphing the algorithms of revenue for your store - to list a couple of his examples) rather than just getting a sense of scale for numbers. He's since deleted his comment (before I finished my reply, so I couldn't post it), but as I expect this series is likely to get a bunch of CC Math enthusiasts who're probably gonna be disappointed by the 'less-than-advanced' topics that I expect this series to cover, here's my response to that (and the sentiment behind it applies to anyone here who wishes for much more advanced topics, especially more math-heavy ones, to be covered in this series) -
"That's more like mathematical thinking for mathematicians, not what most people refer to when they talk of making mathematical thinking more widespread in the general population (such as, say, by emphasizing it more in schools). This is CC Stats, not CC Maths. And it's aimed at general audiences and, more than that, meant to promote sound citizenship, not budding experts in algebraic geometry. Even most scientists don't argue for that level of thinking to be widespread, because it's simply unnecessary. The only argument I know of for pushing that agenda might be Feynmans' claim that it enhances our appreciation of the world - and 'spreading beauty' is hardly a priority for policy, especially given that most people seem quite content with much simpler forms of aesthetic appreciation.
'General' (if you like) mathematical thinking is certainly about "viewing the world through a certain lens--a lens governed by logic", however, that lens doesn't typically feature any differential equations, complex algorithms or linear programming - just a sense for perspective, scale and comparability. It's meant to be easily accessible (much like this course), not esoteric."
I never saw that post. But yes, it's called Crash Course for a reason. Most people can't and don't want to learn differential equations or heart surgery in a day. But a 10-minute video covering how to put odds in perspective, or how badass Ghengis Khan was, or how to identify life's Skinner boxes? I'll take that any day.
Oh my gods, please use human metric system.
G. Stallion Yes! The rest of the world outside the US begging you for that!
Oh, you mean like cubits where the measure is based on the human body?
Or feet! Which are based on human...feet.
Came here for this. Thank you. Being part of the DFTBA-universe, you guys should know better than to ignore the measurement system used by scientists throughout the world...
This was produced in a region that uses imperial for people that use imperial. While I understand and applaud your efforts to further your own education through online lectures, the attitude you demonstrate is childish and you should be ashamed of your conduct. I personally do the conversions when operating outside of my normal system and would expect you to respectfully so the same.
I love the book references! How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking and The Improbability Principle were great books!
This video was so insightful and through-provoking. The war story was truly a gift, I never would have considered that. Thank you for sharing! I am loving this series!
Crash courses are really really great. I watch them with my kids in Pakistan. The only PROBLEM. everyone speaks super fast and it becomes difficult to process information. Please add a speed control button like in most RUclips videos. Many thanks.
Statistically, considering the previous episodes were great, i can say with relative certainty that ill like the rest.
Adriene, you're one in a million!
(Do you happen to know any of the other ~8000 of you?)
Already love this series
That news desk was mindblowing!
I thought when Adriene started talking about the fighter jets, she'll mention survivorship bias. Will it be mentioned in a later episode on statistical fallacies? Also, this course is going really good!
I think this will be a good course. Hank and John should tag team history of Sci.
I've have always figured that some people have mathematical brains and some do not.
Omg my fav series😍
Use, S.I., PLEASE!
Graet Job! Congratulations from Brazil!
Thanks for this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cannot thank you enough, please never stop posting videos. Crash Course helps me get through another college course!!!!!
Snakes are venomous, not poisonous. Carry on.
Came to the comments for this lmao
Yes, yes I am watching this and I'm over a billion seconds old. Thanks for zing! LOL Didn't hurt AT ALL. XD
I can not give this sufficient likes! I'm going to use this in my class. Thanks so much!
learn maths from my videos.
I thought I wasn’t going to be able to last 2 mins with this video but she was super captivating! Also...Ebola
I took Stats (twice) because I had to, but I'm a philosophy, religious studies, music, fine arts, and languages kind of person. I'm watching these videos to see whether redemption for the field is possible in my mind, but I had two very bad professors in the subject and since I'm also a people-person, that kind of left a lasting impression.
If I'm not mistaken, the intuitive way of looking at numbers is on a logarithmic scale and interpreting it as a linear scale.
In other words, we're better at telling the difference between log(x) and log(y) than we are with x and y.
As someone who recently discovered this series and am thoroughly enjoying it: it seems that approx. 98% of the commenters here use the metric system.
But, as someone who watches wayyyy too much American politics on TV: "it's a sad commentary on our lives that only 2% of all RUclipsrs know how to measure anything at all." Yours Truly, Kellyanne Conway. ;)
Great, I'm older than a billion seconds. Thanks for that.
so glad adrienne hill is teaching this!!!
i don't care about math i want her skincare routine.
All is question of exposure : sure, compared to all the deaths in US, dying from lightning strike is rare, but if you stand in the forest on a raining day under a metallic umbrella, you will definitely increase your chance.
There is a chom-chom in this video
True!
true
mind blown at the last example. incredible.
What a great series! So well written and produced. Excellent graphics as well
Must have MOAR!!!
Are we going to do data analytics? I could really use some of that data analytics.
"Mathematical Thinking": Uses imperial units...
Roman Riesen correlation?
Math doesn't have measurement units at all.
So you think imperial units cannot be used mathematically?
Nope! Mathematics is science, science by definition is metric.
Of course they can!
But if you have any desire for coherence, use metric.
when u got a final exam tomorrow and ur watching this so u don't fail
lostbabybre ' me binging all of these before my midterm
,😂😂😂
0:45 “THE NUMBERS MASON! WHAT DO THEY MEAN?”
1:02 ...or a COVID-19 outbreak (writing from 2020, amidst quarantines, cancellations, and closures)
Ooh, I like that Complexly splash screen!
I wish we would stop referring to American soldiers as heroes and romanticizing wars. Also saying American lives were saved while ignoring that improving the jets probably meant they were able to kill more people is very insensitive. The lives of your fellow nationals are not inherently more valuable that the lives of others around the world. This + the use of imperial system it is very clear who your target audience is. I wish you realized you are having an impact much larger than that, and these details are making foreign viewers feel alienated! Still, I love and recommend your work, Crash Course!
I love the show, thank you!
Thanks for helping us with our mathematical thinking, Adriene.
Omg Tim Urban should host a series here!!
I think mention of circumstance increasing or decreasing probability is warranted.
It is often misleading to tell someone they have an X probability of getting bitten by a poisonous snake, when they live in a place with many poisonous snakes, and go hiking every day. The average probability is very skewed by the billions of people living in and around cities which have all but destroyed natural snake habitats.
The same is true for all sorts of other risks. The average is skewed by circumstance.
Thanks for slowing down the tempo from the previous video:, makes the info easier to digest :)
I'm more excited about this episode than any before...although, this may be due to the cumulative effect all these series have had on me. BTW I think it's interesting how people think they are first watching videos on youtube..when you have to realize hundreds of people are watching simultaneously, but still people take the counter at face value. It's just weird to me.
Stats make the world go round.
OMG the WW2 example just made my brain 100000 times smarter
@4.40ish - exponents are a useful way of understanding large numbers, promoting understanding of exponents rather than writing them off as misleading might be a better way of teaching statistics?
Please use metric!!!
oh god, that news desk broke me. It was so funny how you broadcasted it
hey crashcourse, your video production is really good. it really makes us think and imagine better. applause👏👏👏👏
Awesome video!! I really like the way you make those with little maths knowledge able to keep up and stay interested with real-life examples :D
The old-timey newsflash was chuckle-worthy. Nice work on the accent!h
Leading the way, giving knowledge to the people! Awesome stuff!
you can watch my mathematics videos.
I now know this course will be awesome.
Decent start. Looking forward to more. Like how they use so many examples though I kind of hated the news desk thing. That was a really interesting story but the way it was told kind of ruined it :P
Is there any web site where we can look for statistcs like the ones in the video? Like the chance to die by a bee bite and much much more.
Reminds me of the Birthday Problem, which we did early in my high school stats class. The odds are surprisingly low for two people in a group sharing a birthday...
I have no intuition on what feet or miles are. Could you PLEASE make the videos display both metric and your system?
You don't know your height in feet?
drz No I don't know my height in feet.
I would argue that simply being comfortable with numbers does not alone constitute numeracy. Competency with basic mathematics must also be an integral aspect of numeracy. Frankly, a deeper understanding of statistics requires even higher mathematical knowledge and competence in certain circumstances, such as understanding and implementing some statistical concepts such as chi squared and other forms higher statistical analysis !!!
Well, the number of internet users in america is 290 million. the number of internet users in the world are 3.58 billion. Thus the probability of someone watching this video and using the non metric imperial units is 1 in 114. using miles is injustice to 113 in 114 viewers
From India!
not exactly, most of America uses metric. The only country in America that doesnt uses it is USA
balamstudios when I said america I meant USA not the continents
Everyone here in Canada understands both systems. I don't understand why everyone is whining about it.
+drz because every one in India doesn't
wait but did the hedgehog sneeze at that time
I needed the laughs, thank you. This is a great series!
The day I watch this we have a guy killed in a sand hole collapse in my county.
I loved the anecdote in the news, very cool. Keep the show going
I like the News Desk! Give us more News Desk!
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Awesome...C Course rocks
It was a super-great video... Except for the News part. If you had said that story in your normal tone, it would have been a lot more impactful, imo.