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Wrongful convictions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutor's_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutor's_fallacy Don't understand what your STD test
by HaveCourage 10y ago
Wrongful convictions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutor's_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutor's_fallacy
Don't understand what your STD test really means: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive_paradox
Correlation/causation conflation.
- contravariant 10y agoBoth are basically people not understanding Bayes' law. Or, equivalently, the difference between (posterior) probability and likelihood.