Chi-squared test: investigating fingerprint types

What fingerprint type do you have? Using a chi-squared statistical test, we conducted an experiment to find out whether men and women tend to have different fingerprint types.

Running time: 7 min 57 s

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The fingerprints gathered in this video were used solely for the purpose of the experiment and were destroyed after use.

This is part of the online content for ‘Big Picture: Number Crunching’.