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Re:The Low Base Rate Problem (2014) by xpe on Thursday April 14, 2022 @11:22AM (#31028124)
I hear you, and our perceptual lenses are part of our tooling. Our mental tooling.

A change in mindset can be brought can be encouraged and developed by a combination of process and community. This includes educational processes supported by public policy, market mechanisms, and communities.

I believe we need a revolution on how we educate ourselves. How we get there is non-obvious.

If sound statistical thinking was taught, nurtured, and synthesized across many domains, I think it is likely that humanity would be better off.

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