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Comment by melling

4 years ago

That’s because all probabilities are conditional, and people don’t consider that.

These two things helped me to understand probability better.

The Signal and the Noise:

https://www.amazon.com/Signal-Noise-Many-Predictions-Fail-bu...

The videos for Harvard Statistics 110:

https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/stat110/home

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melling

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lawrenceyan  4 years ago

This is a great quote. I might have to steal this.

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