3 ms·
That's not a lack of understanding of percentages, but of Bayes' rule, which arguably is in a completely different realm of conceptual sophistication.
by pishpash 9y ago
That's not a lack of understanding of percentages, but of Bayes' rule, which arguably is in a completely different realm of conceptual sophistication.
- DanBC 9y agoGigerenzer's point is that the same people who don't understand the example when given using percentages find it trivially easy to answer if you give natural numbers such as "1 in 1000 people".