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Guardian Puzzles Feature Probability and Statistical Deception Challenges
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Guardian Puzzles Feature Probability and Statistical Deception Challenges
The newspaper's puzzle column published a coin-flip game show problem and a set of puzzles about data deception on consecutive weeks.
- On July 6, The Guardian published a puzzle in which two contestants flip coins and must guess each other's result, with a solution that raises the winning probability from 25% to 50%.
- The puzzle was contributed by Henk Tijms, emeritus professor of operations research at VU Amsterdam.
- On June 22, the column featured a puzzle illustrating Simpson's paradox, where two separate polls showed a policy more popular among men but less popular overall when combined.
- A reader competition for "Anguish Languish" sentences was won by Edward Barrett for a version of "Mary had a little lamb."
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