Dr. Mary-Claire King
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Thank you very much, Flora.
When I was about six, my dad was already disabled.
He was retired early with what was a very serious form of Parkinson's and was home.
And already, even in the early 50s, one could have on black and white TV...
You know, baseball games every day.
So we would watch together the Cubs games.
And my favorite player was, of course, Ernie Banks.
And my dad would make up story problems about Ernie Banks.
So my favorite one that I have, of course, remembered all these years goes like this.
Ernie Banks is coming up to bat.
He's been batting .277.
He'll probably have three at-bats this game.
What's it going to take for his average to go up to .280?
There we go.
There we go.
So I looked at my dad.
The first time I heard this story problem, I looked at my dad and I said, I don't know.
And he said, you're right.
You can't know with that information.
What more do you need to know?