A Professor Receives, on Average, 24

question 180

Multiple Choice

A professor receives, on average, 24.7 e-mails from students the day before the midterm exam. To compute the probability of receiving at least 10 e-mails on such a day, he will use what type of probability distribution?

• A) Binomial distribution
• B) Poisson distribution
• C) Hypergeometric distribution
• D) None of the above.

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Definitions:

Stereotyped Thinking

The practice of having oversimplified and generalized beliefs about certain groups or categories of people.

Law of Small Numbers

A cognitive bias that leads people to infer or generalize outcomes from a small sample size, mistakenly treating it as representative of a larger population.

Double-Standard Thinking

The application of different sets of principles for similar situations, often leading to unfair or biased judgments.

Prototype

An early sample, model, or release of a product or concept used to test a process or act as a thing to be replicated or learned from.