{"id":923,"date":"2019-09-02T00:11:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T04:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/?page_id=923"},"modified":"2020-08-23T20:29:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T00:29:55","slug":"probability-the-basics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/chapter-5\/5-3\/probability-the-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"&#128203; Probability: The Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How likely is something to happen? Is there order in chance events? How can we decide what is true about many cases by examining only a few? These are the sort of questions dealt with by the branch of mathematics called probability theory. Here is an introduction to the basics from mathisfun.com. Whether or not you think math is fun, knowing the basics or probability theory can help us to negotiate chance events in our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a class=\"embedly-card\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mathsisfun.com\/data\/probability.html\">Probability<\/a><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How likely is something to happen? Is there order in chance events? How can we decide what is true about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":919,"menu_order":532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-923","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4683,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/923\/revisions\/4683"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}