probabilities

In all my googlings, which was hampered by constantly forgetting the most efficient terms, it's strictly a 50/50 chance that a child of a carrier would inherit. However, when my mother and I attended the same college, we went to a hereditary-cancer talk+lunch and they wanted a volunteer for a...

I'd like to start a thread about prophecies and prophets and hope for discussion on how likely various prophecies would be to occur. First of all, how likely the prophecy would probably have seemed like at the time then and has the situation changed now if the prophecy remains unfulfilled. As...

Hi, I wonder if any mathematics whizzes can help me with this one? I've always wondered how you would go about giving confidence measures to probabilities? Perhaps I am using incorrect terminology here so let me illustrate with an example. If someone said to me that there is a 1 in 100 chance...

The probabilities of poker hands occuring on the initial 5 card deal are easily found on the internet and can be computed very easily as well. Also easily found or computed are the probabilities of achieving certain hands on the draw, based on what cards are held. What is not as easily found...