Can you solve the false positive riddle? - Alex Gendler

Can you solve the false positive riddle? - Alex Gendler with tags ted, ted-ed, ted education, teded, ted ed, alex gendler, artrake studio, brilliant riddles, riddles, math, problem solving, false positive paradox

Practice more problem-solving at https://brilliant.org/TedEd/Mining unobtainium is hard work the rare mineral appears in only 1% of rocks in the mine. But your friend Tricky Joe has something up his sleeve. The unobtainium detector hes been perfecting for months is finally ready, and it returns accurate readings 90% of the time. But can it really be trusted? Alex Gendler explains the false positive paradox.Lesson by Alex Gendler, animation by Artrake Studio.Thank you so much to our patrons for supporting us on Patreon! Without you this video would not be possible! Tan YH, Brittiny Elman, Mayra Urbano, Ruth Fang, Kostadin Mandulov, Alex Schenkman, Sdiep Sriram, Ivan Todorovi, Antero Semi, Yanuar Ashari, Mrinalini, Anthony Kudolo, Scott Gass, Querida Owens, Hazel Lam, Manav parmar, Dwight Tevuk, Stephen A. Wilson, Siamak H, Dominik Kugelmann, Katie Winchester, Mary Sawyer, David Rosario, Samuel Doerle, Be Owusu, Susan Herder, Savannah Scheelings, Prasanth Mathialagan, Yanira Santamaria, Chad Harper, Dawn Jordan, Constantin Salagor, Activated Classroom Teaching, Kevin Wong, Umar Farooq, Goh Xiang Ting Diana, Dmitry Neverov, Tushar Sharma, Cristbal Medina Moenne, MJ Tan Mingjie, Yansong Li, Jason A Saslow, Joanne Luce, Henry Li, Kyle Nguyen, Taylor Hunter, Noa Shore, Lex Azevedo, Merit Gamertsfelder, and Bev Millar.