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anethum wrote

thank you for posting this! i’m rather thick so i need constant exposure to make concepts stick

actually i’m not sure why it’s so hard to get bayesian statistics to stick for me. is it because of terse maths language? “probability of a given b” is short and accurate, but like, who says “given” in real life anyway?

(i'm being facetious i'm just stupid probably)

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twovests OP wrote

That doesn't mean you're thick!! I imagine this would take the form of various lessons in K-12. I don't think my brief illustration of what such lessons would look like would constitute one lol.

It's a failure of our education system, not of the students.

I think you're right and "given" is an unideal word. Maybe "knowing"? E.g. "Probability of A, given knowing B."

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