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Re:Why Do Rich People Love Endurance Sports? (2017) by astazangasta on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @10:29AM (#19027058)
Sticking my frequentist nose in here, this is maybe better described as the Base Rate Fallacy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy
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Re:Why Do Rich People Love Endurance Sports? (2017) by EForEndeavour on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @12:12PM (#19027964)
Nice, thanks! Though that page mentions and uses Bayes' Theorem a lot ;)
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