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Why Did ChatGPT Get My Simple Statistics Question Wrong?

These days, I have been running a few experiments to understand how LLMs’ generate answers for statistics questions. I asked ChatGPT a simple statistics question: “The number of calls received at an information desk during a one-hour period follows a Poisson distribution with a mean of 10 calls. Write R code required to calculate the probability of receiving more than 6 but fewer than 13 calls within a one-hour period.”