{"id":2213,"date":"2015-07-21T18:56:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T18:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2015-07-21T18:56:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T18:56:31","slug":"what-are-the-odds-of-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/blog\/2015\/07\/what-are-the-odds-of-this\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the odds of this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A student of mine who wanted to study medicine at kings failed maths a level because her school forgot to teach her the c4 module she needed.<br \/>\nThe odds against such sheer incompetence must be great indeed.<br \/>\nI mentioned this to another student who also wanted to go to medical school. She said &#8216;my father in on the interviewing panel at kings&#8217;.<br \/>\nIncredible odds multiplied by incredible odds. Truly incredible.<br \/>\nMy unfortunate student nevertheless got into kings.<br \/>\nI imagine she thwacked hermaths teacher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A student of mine who wanted to study medicine at kings failed maths a level because her school forgot to teach her the c4 module she needed. The odds against such sheer incompetence must be great indeed. I mentioned this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/blog\/2015\/07\/what-are-the-odds-of-this\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2214,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions\/2214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}