James_Miller comments on If there was one element of statistical literacy that you could magically implant in every head, what would it be? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: James_Miller 24 February 2016 10:11:38PM 0 points [-]

OK, and appropriate when writing on LW. But I wonder if part of the reason most people don't think of "beliefs being probabilities on a continuum" is that even statistically literate people don't usually bother qualifying statements that if taken literally would mean they held some belief with probability 1.