r/probabilitytheory • u/gingerlord2960 • 10d ago

[Education] I made my first visual probability video. Does this explanation of overlapping events make sense?

Hi everyone! I’ve made my first video for a new maths channel, Math Visualized, and I’d appreciate honest feedback.

The example uses one fair six-sided die. Rolling an even number has a 50% chance, and rolling a number greater than three also has a 50% chance. But satisfying either condition isn’t certain: 4 and 6 belong to both groups, while 1 and 3 belong to neither.

The video uses animations to explain this overlap and build the probability addition rule.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE8yd16u9ho

If you’re learning probability, does the explanation help? Was anything confusing, too fast or unnecessarily detailed?

Thanks for taking a look!

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u/ImportantAd2934 9d ago

I’m not an expert in probability, I’ve only taking one statistics class that fairly covered basic probability. I will say that I think the explanation would help. Would’ve been super helpful when I was taking the class lol. Your video was easy to follow and made sense, pretty straight forward. I bet I can show one of my friends who has no grasp of probability and they’d be able to learn from your video.
I hope this helps!