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Re:More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic stat... by mr_mitm on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @04:57AM (#49445863)
And yet they struggle with the abstract concept. They'll wonder why the candidate with a projected 20% chance of winning won. They won't know what to do with the information of a 70% chance of rain tomorrow. "Either it will rain or it won't, which is it!" Perhaps it's the frequentist approach that comes more natural than the Bayesian approach, who knows.

This isn't my original thought, by the way. Someone wrote more about it here: https://towardsdatascience.com/humans-are-bad-at-probability...

Re:More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic stat... by meetingthrower on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @08:09AM (#49447582)
Nobody understands Bayesian approach. Look at Covid -- people FREAKED out when we updated guidance based on learning new information.