buybuydandavis comments on Teaching a short class on Bayes' Theorem? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 08 December 2011 07:39:26AM *  0 points [-]

Show them the problem a few days back with the coins and envelopes. That was the best problem to demonstrate the difference between probability as propensity and probability as reasoning based on information that I've ever seen.