PSYCH 240 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Fair Coin, Empirical Probability
17 Feb 2015
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Probability: empirical probability observed attempts, theoretical probability i. i. ii. i. i. i. The proportion of times that an outcome occurs in some number of. This version is a great way to represent our degree of certainty or. The empirical probability we would get from an infinite number of attempts. The extent to which you should expect or believe something. If you flip a fair coin billions of times you should end up very close: proportions can either be expressed as proportions or percentages. c. you know. If you know absolutely nothing, every possible outcome is equally likely as far as. If you know everything than you know 100% probability of what will and won t happen: being scientific means expressing an appropriate level of confidence in our beliefs. We try to get more evidence and sometimes we find lots of converging evidence that justifies a high degree of certainty.
