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Did the Gamemakers Fix the Lottery in the Hunger Games?
Author(s) -
Caudle Kyle,
Daniels Erica
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/test.12078
Subject(s) - lottery , entertainment , test (biology) , event (particle physics) , advertising , psychology , permutation (music) , mathematics education , computer science , statistics , mathematics , political science , law , art , business , aesthetics , paleontology , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
Summary The Hunger Games is an annual event in the fictional country of Panem. Each year, 24 children (tributes) are chosen by lottery from 12 districts to fight to the death in the arena for the entertainment of the Capitol citizens. Using statistical analysis and computer simulations, we will explore the possibility that the Gamemakers, those in charge of planning the Hunger Games, fixed the lottery. Using the fictitious data from Suzanne Collins' book the Hunger Games , we show how students can learn how to perform a permutation goodness of fit test.