Luke_A_Somers comments on FiveThirtyEight (Nate Silver) rolls out new blog today, and attempts to teach people Bayes' rule. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 18 March 2014 09:32:45PM 0 points [-]

This example was terrible. I practically gagged. The airplane search example was much better. Lots of information that you need to combine in some coherent fashion despite its being extremely inhomogeneous in nature and quality.

(Weird: I happened to check it for the first time in months on launch day, without knowing it was up)