Episode 99
Why average can get your predictions very wrong (ep. 102)
April 19, 202014m 40s
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Show Notes
Whenever people reason about probability of events, they have the tendency to consider average values between two extremes.
In this episode I explain why such a way of approximating is wrong and dangerous, with a numerical example.
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