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2 Post author: tomme 11 April 2012 05:56PM

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 12 April 2012 12:25:12AM 4 points [-]

Actually, you might want to come up with a different example than the standard one so students who happen to encounter the standard one later on will appreciate it. (I was turned off by Eliezer's Bayesian theorem explanation initially, because it started off by challenging me to solve the standard disease example, which I already knew the trick for.)