[boltzmann64]

People waste so many hours watching these types of video where the presenter talks a lot around the problem (has lots of fluff, comedy skit and ads). I think the presenter should have used this opportunity to introduce random variables, independence, Tschebyscheff inequality and explained the "bizzare" puzzle.

Or if you are going to do this with simulation, then a introduction to Monte Carlo methods, and why such simulations work and provide correct results would have been a better us of viewer's time.

But videos like this just state a fact and then handwave around the fact without hitting the core idea. The viewer leaves with a false sense of understanding, and keep wondering about the "bizzare" fact, when it is nothing but good ol' introductory probability. YouTube math needs reform.

[ndsipa_pomu]

I think there's room for Matt Parker's more "fluffy" type of maths presentations as well as the more in depth Grant Sanderson's visualisations. Matt is on a mission to popularise maths and it's easy for anyone that gets inspired/intrigued by a topic to dig deeper.

Rather than a reform, maybe there's room for more maths-based videos to fill the gap between recreational and more serious maths?