Im thinking this is a fairly easy question for the google intellect,
so I have added the requirement of a second 'fun' question as well:
1st question: A boss and his slave are arguing over whether or not
their manufacturing process in control. The boss says "Your yield is
only 50%..that
is nothing better than random!" The slave thinks he is wrong, but
hasnt touched statistics in 5 years..he remembers the standard
deviation is
most important rather than the mean in determining control.
Who is right..and how can the poor employee defend himself
intelligently?
The second question is posed here to test the creativity of the google
intellect:
A guy with a little stats knowledge is on a pool league. He proposes
to the team he can use statistics to show the relative degree of
"control" each player
has over his game. He is proposing a set of experiments where each
player shoots the same shot a number of times, with the objective of
measuring a statistic of how far away the cue ball is from the
shooter's intended final resting place (in the real game, this is
critical for increasing your odds of winning the game.) Several kinds
of shots would be set up, to see how each shooter performs in each
scenario.
How does one set this experiment up? Is the metric "distance from
intended resting position" and adequation variable? And how can one
use the data to detect an improvement (or degredation) in their game?
( a process shift, if you
will!)
Im looking forward to your answers! |
