Possible het's

Yeah, I took two semesters of statistics and promply left all the knowledge I gained at the door when I left the final exam! T-tests and Chi squares OH MY....

I hope this isn't what I have in store for me next semester in Business Statistics. Statistics is supposed to be the easier side of math but I'll take calculus anyday.

That's exactly what you have in store Rich. I actually enjoyed statistics to a certain degree, at least the upper level zoology courses that dealt with it, not so much the stat class I took. Excel becomes your friend fast, as well as the other statistical programs designed to do all the work for you. You just have to be able to understand what the results mean.

-Evan

VCU's statistics program is horrible...they teach all of the statistical calculations on this program called Minitab...mind you this is Statistics for business majors....while almost every business out there is using Excel or an excel-like format.

I had to re-learn everything in order to be able do it on excel for other classes...not cool...

ewwwww Minitab, I loathe it !!!!!!

Neil

Minitab works great for fake, pre-designed textbook examples. For real world data...excel is much more useful.

Not to mention, while VCU statistics teaches stat in minitab, professors in the upper level classes where you use stat calculations want it done in excel. Go figure?

Emilio, dont overload your brain thinking about percentages. when it comes to bp hets anything goes. heres an example. I produced a bunch of 66% het.albinos, there were 3 females. I kept 2 females and sold a female to my buddy Ted Thompson. we raised them up and both of us bred the poss. het. females to albino males. all 3 females produced albinos, we then knew that they were indeed 100% hets. heres the other end of it. cinnamon pastel X cinnamon pastel 8 eggs that hatched out 8 normal ball pythons. you would expect to see a super or 2 in this breeding. thats just bad luck.I dont even like to think about percentages when breeding hets, they will make you look like a fool sometimes. :P

8 normals out of a cinny x cinny pairing? With that kind of luck, I would never step foot outside the house.

Okay maybe I'm just a simple Canadian chick here but with possible hets isn't it just either it is or it ain't sort of situation folks? In other words whether I buy 1 possible het or 100 possible hets....each het in and of itself has a 50/50 chance of either being a het or being a normal. So I could get lucky on that one purchase or extremely unlucky on that 100 purchase but in the end it's still about each snake and it's own individual chances of being het right?

Yes you are correct ... and the same thing COULD happen with coin flips. It is possible to flip 100 coins and have them all end up heads. That is not likely, but neither is getting 100 "true" 50% possible hets and having none of them actually be het.

In statistics they use the term "probabilities" to explain the likelyhood of something happening. So really correct terminology would be, if you have two 50% possible hets the probability that at least one is a het is 75%.

Neil