torekp comments on [Link] A Bayes' Theorem Visualization - Less Wrong

15 Post author: hegemonicon 09 January 2012 04:44PM

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Comment author: torekp 10 January 2012 02:20:13AM 0 points [-]

Nice. Oscar Bonilla's visualization still gives me a better grasp, I feel. Maybe you could add a graph in Oscar's style - especially his last graph?

Comment author: hegemonicon 10 January 2012 04:03:12AM *  0 points [-]

Euler-style diagrams may give a better conceptual representation. but unfortunately they are fairly useless for intuiting about actual quantities - people are simply aren't very good at comparing relative sizes of areas, and are much more accurate when comparing lengths.

I agree that the method I've chosen could be more enlightening, I'm just not sure how to do it while retaining the ability to make comparisons about the actual values.

For more on this, see http://lilt.ilstu.edu/gmklass/pos138/datadisplay/badchart.htm