Bayesian stats book banned in China

Post by vorg » Tue, Jan 11, 2011, 11:03 AM UTC

est wrote: post #75

1. You can still buy this book in Chinese online book stores http://www.51eng.com/cn/bookdetail.asp?id=602871 http://www.51eng.com/cn/bookdetail.asp?id=602870 2. As a Chinese myself, I can confirm Bayesian is not taught in high school statistics, but defintely taught in college statistics course. It's called 贝叶斯概率 in Chinese.

You can probably also download a photocopied PDF of it, as you can many English books, as well as American TV shows and movies. Actions in China is divided into the "official" and the "unofficial". Officially, only 20 foreign movies a year are allowed in. "Unofficially", you can choose from hundreds at your local DVD store, nowadays usually with 8 or 10 movies, or an entire season of TV episodes, on the one disk, going for less than US $1. Sometimes when they build a brick wall here, someone else will come back within a day to smash an ugly-looking hole in it. Officially, no-one's allowed through, but unofficially, you are.

Post by metastew » Tue, Jan 11, 2011, 3:58 PM UTC

meric wrote: post #78

CWuestefeld wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like the (brief) period when the sense of traffic lights was changed, so that "red" indicated "go". This makes perfect sense, since anything red must of course stand for making progress.

If you watch the stock market news in China on TV, a stock highlighted in red means it went up, and green means down.

That's an interesting sidenote.

I wonder if it's a subtle psychological trick to not associate red with negative connotations (such as "declining profits", "stop", "blood") because the color red is part of the CPC's identity makeup.Or maybe it's just a cultural thing, like how they wear white when someone died and black to celebrate a birth/life (I'm not sure if it is a chinese custom however, but I know it's an asian custom).

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