Comments on: Phenoms Vs Strings: The Game http://asymptotia.com/2006/08/04/phenoms-vs-strings-the-game/ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:51:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Letting Off Steam - Asymptotia http://asymptotia.com/2006/08/04/phenoms-vs-strings-the-game/comment-page-1/#comment-178 Letting Off Steam - Asymptotia Wed, 09 Aug 2006 05:01:38 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2006/08/04/phenoms-vs-strings-the-game/#comment-178 [...] It’s a Summer tradition here…. lots of people look forward to the Tuesday night volleyball. (Yes, Pyracantha, a number of women played, and some of them were physicsits.) [...] [...] It’s a Summer tradition here…. lots of people look forward to the Tuesday night volleyball. (Yes, Pyracantha, a number of women played, and some of them were physicsits.) [...]

]]> By: Clifford http://asymptotia.com/2006/08/04/phenoms-vs-strings-the-game/comment-page-1/#comment-153 Clifford Mon, 07 Aug 2006 16:06:01 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2006/08/04/phenoms-vs-strings-the-game/#comment-153 Pyracantha, er..... no. If there is only a small pool of women at the workshops that week to begin with, then -once you've allowed for the percentage of any population of any gender who wants to come out to play a game of any sort- measuring the number of them that turn out to play basketball does not tell you anything more than you already knew:- There are not enough women in the field. It does not work the other way around, however: You cannot conclude based on this observation that if more women played basketball they would stay longer in the field. Well, you can conclude it, but it would be an incorrect conclusion.... Cheers, -cvj Pyracantha, er….. no.

If there is only a small pool of women at the workshops that week to begin with, then -once you’ve allowed for the percentage of any population of any gender who wants to come out to play a game of any sort- measuring the number of them that turn out to play basketball does not tell you anything more than you already knew:- There are not enough women in the field.

It does not work the other way around, however: You cannot conclude based on this observation that if more women played basketball they would stay longer in the field. Well, you can conclude it, but it would be an incorrect conclusion….

Cheers,

-cvj

]]> By: Pyracantha http://asymptotia.com/2006/08/04/phenoms-vs-strings-the-game/comment-page-1/#comment-148 Pyracantha Mon, 07 Aug 2006 05:00:58 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2006/08/04/phenoms-vs-strings-the-game/#comment-148 All male cast, it looks like. Maybe one of the things that is needed for women to do better in physics careers, is to teach them to play basketball. All male cast, it looks like.

Maybe one of the things that is needed for women to do better in physics careers, is to teach them to play basketball.

]]> By: a cornellian http://asymptotia.com/2006/08/04/phenoms-vs-strings-the-game/comment-page-1/#comment-147 a cornellian Mon, 07 Aug 2006 03:32:28 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2006/08/04/phenoms-vs-strings-the-game/#comment-147 Go Csaba Csaki ! (he is one of my favorite profs at cornell) Go Csaba Csaki !

(he is one of my favorite profs at cornell)

]]> By: Aaron F. http://asymptotia.com/2006/08/04/phenoms-vs-strings-the-game/comment-page-1/#comment-115 Aaron F. Fri, 04 Aug 2006 22:47:51 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2006/08/04/phenoms-vs-strings-the-game/#comment-115 <i>At some point, we realized that nobody had been keeping track of the score for a while...</i> Theorists all the way! ;) <i>...and so since we were probably within a point of each other, we all agreed that we’d reset to an matched score of 0-0.</i> Back in high school, that would've surprised me... but that was before I saw a full professor cross out a board full of higher-order terms, and then decide that 6 was approximately equal to 10. <i>Two points ahead is not enough to know if we’d have won.</i> Gotta agree with you there, assuming basketball is Poisson process. Fortunately, today is Friday, the world's official day off from statistics... which means the Strings can feel free to declare victory! :) At some point, we realized that nobody had been keeping track of the score for a while…

Theorists all the way! ;)

…and so since we were probably within a point of each other, we all agreed that we’d reset to an matched score of 0-0.

Back in high school, that would’ve surprised me… but that was before I saw a full professor cross out a board full of higher-order terms, and then decide that 6 was approximately equal to 10.

Two points ahead is not enough to know if we’d have won.

Gotta agree with you there, assuming basketball is Poisson process. Fortunately, today is Friday, the world’s official day off from statistics… which means the Strings can feel free to declare victory! :)

]]> By: anon. http://asymptotia.com/2006/08/04/phenoms-vs-strings-the-game/comment-page-1/#comment-114 anon. Fri, 04 Aug 2006 22:07:47 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2006/08/04/phenoms-vs-strings-the-game/#comment-114 You know, Josh Erlich has been known to respond to the name "Dr. J." I guess he doesn't live up to it! You know, Josh Erlich has been known to respond to the name “Dr. J.” I guess he doesn’t live up to it!

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