Sparking widgets
10% of widgets are bad and 90% are good. 4% of good widgets emit sparks, and 12% of bad widgets emit sparks. If a widget is sparking, find an easy way to calculate the chance that it’s a bad widget, keeping the operations as simple as possible so that it’s easy to do the calculation entirely in your head.
You’re encouraged to solve the problem yourself without looking at the answer. an answer can be found in bayes extraordinary claims.
Parents:
- Introductory Bayesian problems
Bayesian problems to try to solve yourself, before beginning to learn about Bayes’ rule.