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Ask HN: What are some interesting and famous paradoxes in probability?
I'm looking for famous, non-intuitive results such as
1. Simpson's Pardox
2. The Birthday Problem
3. Monty Hall Problem
4. Potato paradox
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- rahimnathwani 6y agoBerkson's Paradox The two envelope paradox Check out chapter 6 of The Book of Why.
- credit_guy 6y agoStein's paradox [1]. Quite well explained in the book "Computer Age Statistical Inference", available online [2]. Cute quote from that book: "The James–Stein theorem came as a rude shock to the statistical world of 1961". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stein%27s_example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stein%27s_example [2] https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/CASI/ https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/CASI/
- Someone 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Probability_theory_paradoxes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Probability_theory_pa...