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Quiz: Why the statistics professor sued the baker...
03-19-2016, 08:05 PM (This post was last modified: 03-19-2016 08:05 PM by Jim Horn.)
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RE: Quiz: Why the statistics professor sued the baker...
Good heavens - that was covered in a classical Math puzzle book in the '50s or thereabouts.

[Spoiler alert] The statistician did a histogram of number of rolls purchased versus their weight. When he saw that it formed just the upper tail of a classical normal distribution, that proved that he was getting only rolls picked from a population which averaged below the advertised weight.

Now, *my* question - what was the name of that book (grunty face here, trying to remember...)?
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