BBC Four Documentary - Tails You Win The Science Of Chance

Noels Beard · Post by **Noels Beard** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 6:12 pm

Anyone catch this? Very good little program. Particular nice for all you FOBT haters. Nice little section on Scientific Determinism and Chaos Theory. I suggest you all watch.

Real Pro gamer · Post by **Real Pro gamer** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 6:17 pm

Is it on again soon or do I need to watch it on iplayer

Cf · Post by Cf » Sun Oct 21, 2012 6:24 pm

Will iplayer when I get in.

Being on BBC4 I am assuming they've got their facts right

Noels Beard · Post by **Noels Beard** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 6:27 pm

On BBC HD, not BBC 1 HD, in about 20 mins.

quizard · Post by **quizard** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 6:40 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0 ... of_Chance/

Noels Beard · Post by **Noels Beard** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 1:12 am

So what did you all think? They even had a man from IGT on!

Cf · Post by Cf » Mon Oct 22, 2012 1:22 am

I was enjoying this until the point he showed when he died.

He said the average age of his death was 82 (i think, but the actual number not really important) and then presented it as a linear function from his current age. That's not right.

Cf · Post by Cf » Mon Oct 22, 2012 1:22 am

But not carrying on

Cf · Post by Cf » Mon Oct 22, 2012 2:05 am

Disappointed in the end. I could go into details why but I'll just say I was expecting something more based in mathematics than trying to appeal to the majority. I get the impression the show wasn't quite sure which it was doing.

Noels Beard · Post by **Noels Beard** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 11:21 am

Well this is as good as you get from the BBC nowadays. Remember when they had just 2 channels? But still managed to put out informative programming. They used to do a lot more Open University partnership. The problem I think stems from making it too accessible. They know most of the people watching know fuck all, and so have to start from there.

I was watching 'Pointless' the other day, and this question came up, under the category 'Famous Johns' : 'President of the USA during the Cuban Missile Crisis."

The man answering had just finished studying to be a primary school teacher. His answer? John Carter.