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It’s the not the taking part that counts, it’s the winning. Tom Whipple has spoken to preposterously overqualified experts to learn the science behind winning at games.
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As everyone knows, it’s not the winning that counts, it’s the taking part. Nonsense: that is the battle cry of the loser. From an aerodynamicist’s advice on paper aeroplanes, to a game theorist’s thoughts on Monopoly, or Andy McNab’s tips on pillow fighting, Tom Whipple has spoken to preposterously overqualified experts to learn some of the surprising science behind how to win at games.
Tom Whipple is the Science Editor at The Times and was awarded the British Society of Magazine Editors Print Writer of the Year in 2015. He is also a bad loser.
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Despite the content… The very title makes me angry.
Go along with other coaches Ri! Run the RatRace! Winning clickbait challenge… is this new British style?
I don't see this as being related to what the Ri is about, and stopped watching it after the animal cruelty. Very bad indeed.
nah it's not about winning or beating people. unsubbed
Boring!! Agree with Dudley Middleton that this is not what the RI is about. This is just a platform to sell his book, since he mentioned the phrase 'my book' only about a gazillion times. Please RI, stick with proper science in future.
he goofy
Only for Kids first half is worth watching
28:21 "By the way, he is not a fat man at all. […] He's an athlete, an athlete of eating." – 28:26
Dat stone skipping tho. Wtf!?
49:50 Am I the only one who thought he meant 'jizz'?
Why is Dan from slow mo guys on the RI stage?
Why is he wearing mom jeans!
Good sir, it is very bad form indeed to make fun of that man's singing when wearing that belt and so poorly.
Great video.
He should put all this in a book…
Is this the best the RI can come up with?
Die* not dice.. derp? o.o
Winning and beating people? This is what you teach to children? Disgusting. Brainwashing from an early age.
This got past my adblock – cunning
Haha, 32:29 the grown adult who can't flip a coin
How tough an audience do you have to be to not laugh at "Rosie the Ribbeter".
This is one of the greatest RI talks ever given.
And it's perfect for encouraging the young children in the crowd to stay both doubtful and curious. The conclusions of mathematicians, physicists and engineers, were (demonstrably) wrong in each case: about frog jumping, about stone skipping, about coin-tossing, about the physics of plane flight. Every one of these is an easy easy common-sense problem. Nothing high-falutin, nothing abstract, nothing too subtle or complicated for the layman. With the aero-engineering one, you've got the perfect example of how you can get extremely far in a field even though you only kinda-sorta understand what is literally its most basic and fundamental concept. (Keith Devlin noted this too.) The plane still flies (and the passengers still survive the flight) whether or not the pilot truly understands "lift" or anything else about flight. This alone is proof that the utility of Science as an enterprise suggests very little about the wisdom of individual scientists.
Now why are people, to this day, expected to pretend that some oddballs' nonsensical anti-realist "interpretations" of Particle Physics are legitimate? Why is so much time, energy and money put into evangelism toward this end? Wavefunction collapse? Metaparticles? Multiple realities? No hidden variables? "Shut up and calculate" while pretending it all isn't nonsense, no better understood than ancients understood magnets?
What an embarrassment to Science our scientists are!
It's as if they've forgotten that the whole enterprise is one big error-correction process, consisting of getting things wrong and only realizing as much, after the fact. It's as if they've forgotten that, whatever you believe, with overwhelming probability: you're wrong.
NULLIUS IN VERBA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FtcW9u0GDE
"This is a serious Scientist." — Now we have to qualify Scientists as serious to give them legitimacy.
Mark Twain fans would know about the jumping frogs of Calaveras county.
How to win friends and … No! That's for losers! I wanna beat people!!!1
"If only they stuck to frog jumping contests, rather than electoral ones…"
Brilliant
Interesting funny how in a mostly White audience you dispelled your whole theory by having a mixed on stage. Get woke .
Hey I liked your class nice job but I have a question for you…. I want to know wouldn't it be true to get the true probability of Head to tail ratio out of 40k tosses, without cheating lol, wouldnt you need to toss 20k starting heads up and 20 k tails up and blind fold the flipper and have another catch and call out the results.???
"He's an athlete. An athlete of eating."
Odd things about the video:
He belt length is not right.
It's called Rock Paper Scissors, Not Scissor Paper Stone.
I never understood the people would would make a square paper airplane and actually think it had a chance.
Love the video. However on the game of hangman – the best word is ?uck – almost every consonant fits instead of the questionmark. Even if you spot the guesser UCK, they will have less then 50% chance of winning.
Fermi-Roundabout… the emptiest circle of road in the world XD
Crafty scratch of the todger at 3:48. Love it.
What do I win??