I was quite amazed to read the other day that some of the major sports betting outfits will let folks bet on the major WWE events - WrestleMania etc. Apparently they won't allow stakes higher than $50, but don't punters know it's fixed?
I was quite amazed to read the other day that some of the major sports betting outfits will let folks bet on the major WWE events - WrestleMania etc. Apparently they won't allow stakes higher than $50, but don't punters know it's fixed?
Just because it's fixed doesn't mean punters know the outcome.
Bookies have taken bets on scripted dramas before. Who Shot Mr Burns? is one I remember as a teen, bookies probably made a killing on that one but I seem to recall Maggie shot up the odds as it got closer. Who shot Phil? was another I seem to recall being on the news that bookies were taking bets on.
I was quite amazed to read the other day that some of the major sports betting outfits will let folks bet on the major WWE events - WrestleMania etc. Apparently they won't allow stakes higher than $50, but don't punters know it's fixed?
Just because it's fixed doesn't mean punters know the outcome.
Bookies have taken bets on scripted dramas before. Who Shot Mr Burns? is one I remember as a teen, bookies probably made a killing on that one but I seem to recall Maggie shot up the odds as it got closer. Who shot Phil? was another I seem to recall being on the news that bookies were taking bets on.
The hostile environment was a response to an electoral mandate. It seems to have been implemented badly....
It also predated her time at the Home Office. A substantial number of the scandalous cases which have emerged were under Labour, which was the government which brought in the requirements for proving entitlement to benefits and to work here. Oddly, Theresa May's critics never seem to mention this. It must be an honest oversight on their part, I guess.
Of the cases Javid apologised for, 2/3rds occurred under the Tory government. Previous administrations aren't innocent, but that's no reason for giving May a pass on doubling the severity of this scandal.
I don't think she did 'double the severity'. The number of cases per year looks fairly similar.
A better criticism would be that the coalition government should have noticed the cases that had been happening under Labour, and improved the administration accordingly. But of course that won't do as a criticism, because SHE'S A NASTY TORY DELIBERATELY WRECKING PEOPLE'S LIVES or some other such vile garbage.
12 cases in 8 years looks similar to 6 cases in 8 years?
Sorry, I'm missing something. 12 cases of what versus 6 cases of what? Explain, please?
Windrush - purile argument over who was more responsible between labour and conservatives and of course both were
No, I was referring to the analyses that came after. @Stereotomy says that's as we are dealing with frequencies we should use a Poisson distribution (which gives us the variance since the mean and variance are the same number in Poisson). The person who came after maintains that we should use binomials. My take is that we should treat them like disease rates and that we need to know the number of cases that were investigated, not just the number affected. Once we know that, we can work out for each group the number that were affected and the number that weren't affected, do a 2x2 contingency table, and plug in the maths to an online calculator to do a chi-square test.
To explain. If you had a town with 12 people and all 12 die, then that is obviously different from a town with 12 people but only 6 die. But if you have a town with a million people and 12 die, then that's not very different from a town with a million people and 6 die.
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Time to wish everyone a pleasant nights rest
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Bookies have taken bets on scripted dramas before. Who Shot Mr Burns? is one I remember as a teen, bookies probably made a killing on that one but I seem to recall Maggie shot up the odds as it got closer. Who shot Phil? was another I seem to recall being on the news that bookies were taking bets on.
To explain. If you had a town with 12 people and all 12 die, then that is obviously different from a town with 12 people but only 6 die. But if you have a town with a million people and 12 die, then that's not very different from a town with a million people and 6 die.
Which is why I asked "12 cases of what?"
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