LESSON: Making Fair Decisions

Site: Mountain Heights Academy OER
Course: Introductory Statistics Q4
Book: LESSON: Making Fair Decisions
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Date: Saturday, 26 April 2025, 12:42 PM

Probability Sample Methods

In this lesson video you'll be introduced to what the word "fair" means in probability.

Is it fair?

In this video you'll be given a problem and various methods for solving that problem. Your job is to determine if the method is "fair" -- does everyone in the population have an equal probability of being selected?

Using Probability to Make Fair Decisions

In this lesson video you will examine ways to use the action of flipping a coin to make fair decisions.

Picking Fairly Example

Watch the following video to see an example of how to make a fair decision based on the assumption that "fair" means everyone has an equal chance of being chosen.