Question

An introvert is either;
A) more likely to work in sales
B) more likely to work in a library

Answer 1

b?

Answer 2

Estimate some numbers to work with,

how many people in some country work in sales ?
how many work in a library?


what percentage of people work in sales that are introverts ?
what percentage of people that work in a library are introverts ?

Answer 3

i recon;
there is at least 1000 times as many people in sales jobs as librarian jobs

only a few percent of people in sales would be introverts
maybe about 80 percent of librarians would be introverts

Answer 4

that makes about 20 introverts in sales
compared to about 0.8 introverts in a library

Answer 5

- does anyone else want to estimate some numbers?

Answer 6

Wow, how did you think of this?

Answer 7

i can't remember where, but i read it somewhere,

counter intuitive eh,

do you think my numbers are ok?

Answer 8

Is this question from, 'Intro to mathematical thinking!' ?

Answer 9

Hmm - I'm not a reliable source for this. But it was an interesting read.

Answer 10

Or is it from, 'Intro to Probability' ? :P

Answer 11

that is probably right @AkashdeepDeb 'Intro to mathematical thinking'- through coursera
i took that subject a couple of years ago

Answer 12

Hey, I was in that course too! Left it midway. Was that by Stanford?

Answer 13

I am taking it now! ^^
Yeah, it is by Stanford, it is cool!
Not that interesting, but it may be helpful as Keith Devlin had said. :D

Answer 14

Seriously, @UnkleRhaukus , how do you make those numerical assumptions? O.O
Is there any specific way to do that?

Answer 15

um, they are very rough guesses , i know that there aren't heaps of libraries but there are lots of sales jobs , (in the cities i know) , there are probably more introverts in sales than a few percentage, if you have some actually data, or different guesses try that, but i am still sure there will be more introverts in sales than introverts in libraries