Re:The Low Base Rate Problem (2014)
by xpe on Thursday April 14, 2022 @11:22AM
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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.
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.