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War: Crash Course Statistics #42

War: Crash Course Statistics #42

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Today we're going to discuss the role of statistics during war. From helping the Allies break Nazi Enigma codes and estimate tank production rates to finding sunken submarines, statistics have and continue to play a critical role on the battlefield
Date: 2022-04-04

Comments and reviews: 9


If the segment on Enigma were posted on a WWII fanboy site instead of a site based on education you would have a hundred thousand comments correcting the video and 100k more arguing with and correcting them. -. after 1943 the Enigma 3241G model upgraded to 4 rotors-. -OMG man, you're such an idiot because that was only in the Kriegsmarine because the Army and Air force kept using the 3 rotor 3241F model until August 3, 1944. -. lol. WWII amateur historians are the biggest one upping know it alls you will find on the internet. Very interesting. I have as an amateur, studied WWII for 30 something years and found this to be a very interesting way to approach the subject (the contribution of statistics and the people involved in their analysis.
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What's the purpose of this video? I think there were way too much breadth and not enough depth on any one thing. It would have taken 30 seconds or so to explain why the estimator for how many tanks there must have been based off the sample of serial numbers makes sense.
Each one of the topics could have easily been a 5 minute movie in their own, this just seemed like a video version of a listicle instead of being educational at all.

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Yeah, I call bs on the idea that there were no wars anywhere for 100-200 at some point in ancient history. My guess is that he only looked at European history and saw something like the Pax Romana, and either somehow thought that this was also true of everywhere, or literally paid no attention to places outside Europe.
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No. The way the Enigma worked, if you had two of the same letter next to each other, they wouldn't maybe be encoded as two different letters, they absolutely had to be encoded as two different letters. The rotation of the wheel forces that to be so.
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Very good pronounciation of Y TYMF at 1: 18, so good in fact, that I couldn't tell the difference between her and a native speaker; JHPSG!
(For those of you too lazy to translate that says BRAVO)

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Talking about statistics and you mention war, I thought you meant baseball WAR(Wins Above Replacement. Maybe baseball, or sports in general, is a good idea for a future episode?
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and again no mentio of the Polish coad beakers who where instrumental in decoding the Enigma. they almost never get the mentions they deserve for there help in cracking the codes
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-crashcourse is there any talk about packaging up any of these series and selling them as dvd's? I know it is free here, but I would be interested in this series.
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What is the war economy? how do countries escape their bad economic situation by entering war situation? do that differ between countries?
Thanks.

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