Why average can get your predictions very wrong (ep. 102)
Apr 19, 2020•15 min•Ep. 99
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Episode description
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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