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Re:What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely k... by HaveCourage on Sunday January 01, 2017 @08:33AM (#13295673)
Wrongful convictions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutor's_fallacy

Don't understand what your STD test really means: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive_paradox

Correlation/causation conflation.

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Re:What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely k... by contravariant on Sunday January 01, 2017 @09:34AM (#13295836)
Both are basically people not understanding Bayes' law. Or, equivalently, the difference between (posterior) probability and likelihood.
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