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The problem of problem solving

HOW TO DEVELOP A FORTUNE TELLER. Ok, I have to take Titanic data ; info about the people aboard the ship. Titanic ticket #435 is held by Johnny ; a 12 years old, 3rd class citizen, male, two brothers aboard, both parents. WILL JOHNNY BE SAVED??!?!?! More specifically, is someone of Johnny's demographic going to survive? Are 3rd class little boys with big families able to get on one of the limited number of rafts and safety boats? Certainly not before 1st class little boys. Ahhhh PRIVILEGE . Developing the  FORTUNE TELLER ....... We first must TRAIN the fortune teller. We take 891 of the 1309 Titanic passengers, and we TELL the fortune teller whether each one of those 891 people survived so it can learn. How the  FORTUNE TELLER  learns..... This is what we know about each member of the Titanic training set VARIABLE DESCRIPTIONS: survival Survival (0 = No; 1 = Yes) pclass Passenger Class (1 = 1st; 2 = 2nd; ...