Episode 9: The Maths of Privilege
Citizens Of Nowhere
English - March 13, 2018 18:38 - 1 hour - 152 MBComedy News Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
What starts as an informal chat with no planned focus becomes, at one point, a discussion (by two comedians with no maths background) of the difference in chances for a group seen as a whole, and the chances for any individual member of that group. Along the way we talk about comedian Sofie Hagen's recent mini-twitterstorm about an ad by Cancer Research UK, and an incredibly abstract example involving a lottery where black people are given more tickets than white people. This lottery does not exist, as far as we're aware.
WARNING: CONTAINS OFF-THE-CUFF MATHS.
This is in no way influenced by the fact that neither of us is ever on Mock The Week.
Sofie's original tweet here: https://twitter.com/SofieHagen/status/968841936906981376
Definition of a bell-curve here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution - not to be confused with the book 'The Bell Curve', which we haven't touched yet, but may at some point.