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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words
ID: #48632
Short
Gamble
Instructions
You will hear a recording. Below is a transcription of the recording. Some words in the transcription differ from what the speaker said. Please click on the words that are different.
* Click on the words that are different from what you hear
Result:
Correct Transcript:
"It's not just gamblers using science. In many cases, science has benefited enormously from people studying the house." Mathematician Adam Kucharski. He's the author of the new book The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling. "Back in the Renaissance, actually, probability theory was developed to study these games. I mean, can you imagine having bets where it's not actually clear what a fair game is?" For example, in the 17th century the question came up, do you have the same chance of throwing a six by rolling one die four times or of throwing two sixes by rolling two dice 24 times? "That had been around awhile, those kinds of bets and those kinds of questions, and that was Fermat and Pascal who developed a lot of this theory. And one of the crucial things was this concept of an expected value: if you play a game peaceably.
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Printed "incalculably", the speaker says "actually"
Explanation: On the recording the words are "it's not actually clear". They start with different letters, and the printed word is much longer though both end the same.
Printed "misleadingly", the speaker says "peaceably"
Explanation: Listen again to "play a game peaceably". The first letters differ, and the printed word is much longer though both end the same.
"gamblers" matches the audio
Explanation: "It's not just gamblers". It may distract you, yet the speaker says it exactly as printed, so do not click it.
"Fermat" matches the audio
Explanation: "that was Fermat and Pascal". The name looks unusual, but the speaker says it exactly as printed, so do not click it.
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