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David_Gerard comments on Attempt to explain Bayes without much maths, please review - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: David_Gerard 06 August 2011 06:17:16PM *  1 point [-]

Hmm, you're right. And the audience I was thinking of was people who, like myself, tend to visualise these things (though the diagrams in my head are maddeningly vague when I try to capture them).

My deeper pedagogical problem, though, is that equations - any equations, even "2+2=4" is pushing it - generate ugh fields. This is more than a little problematic when explaining mathematical concepts.