A Deep Dive into the Science of Statistical Expectation

It was the summer of 1988 when I stepped onto a boat for the first time in my life. It was a passenger ferry from Dover, England to Calais, France. I didn’t know it then, but I was catching the tail end of the golden era of Channel crossings by ferry. This was right before budget airlines and the Channel Tunnel <a href="https://journals.openedition.org/rhcf/2452" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">almost kiboshed</a> what I still think is the best way to make that journey. I expected the ferry to look like one of the many boats I had seen in children’s books. Instead, what I came upon was an impossibly large, gleaming white skyscraper with small square windows. And the skyscraper appeared to be resting on its side for some baffling reason. From my viewing angle on the dock, I couldn’t see the ship’s hull and funnels. All I saw was its long, flat, windowed, exterior. I was looking at a horizontal skyscraper. <a href="https://towardsdatascience.com/a-deep-dive-into-the-science-of-statistical-expectation-9dc0f80bd26">Read More</a>