Lec 24 MIT 6.00SC Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Spring 2011
III The following content is provided under a Creative Commons license. Your support will help MIT OpenCourseWare continue to offer high quality educational resources for free. To make a donation or view additional materials from hundreds of MIT courses, visit MIT OpenCourseWare at ocw.mit.edu. PROFESSOR: All right. We'll back up and start again since I just turned on my microphone. I started with the observation that for most of recorded history people thought qualitatively, not quantitatively. They didn't know what statistics were. They must have had some intuitive sense, for example, that if you're old, you're more likely to have bad hearing than if you're young. If you're old you're more likely to die than if you're young. Things like that. But they were just anecdotes, and they had no careful way to go from statements about individuals to statements about populations or expectations. This changed in about the middle of the 17th century...