Statistics graduate Whit Alley '15 scores with Nielsen Ratings

When Wright State statistics student Whit Alley got a high-five from interviewers at Nielsen Ratings, he was pretty sure a job offer was coming. Alley had just exposed a trick statistics question posed by the interviewers, something none of the other job candidates that day had done.  “The interviewers asked me the question, and I smile a little bit because I’m thinking back to my class,” Alley recalled. “I said, ‘Actually, you can’t say that. You have to ask the question in terms of odds, not probability.’ They were trying to trip me up.” The interviewers told Alley to make sure to tell his