Practice question · Estimate
Top-born children reach the top with odds 3-to-1; bottom-born children with odds 1-to-4. Set the slider to the odds ratio .
Estimate on a scale from 0 to 20.
Hints
- Convert both to numeric odds: 3 and 0.25.
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12 (answers within ±1 count)
Why
: birth at the top multiplies the odds of ending there twelve-fold. An OR of 1 would mean origins are irrelevant, this society is a long way from that.
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