> So, what’s a better way to learn? Instead of beginning with Bayes' Theorem, you might start with the story of Annie Duke. She’s one of the best female poker p

> So, what’s a better way to learn? Instead of beginning with Bayes' Theorem, you might start with the story of Annie Duke. She’s one of the best female poker players in the history of the game. How did she become so successful? She used probability theories, like Bayes' Theorem, to make good decisions about how to make good bets. This strategy rocketed her to the top of the poker world. In 2010, she won the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. Her lifetime earnings amount to over four million dollars. > Now, all of the sudden, I bet you’re much more interested in learning how to make decisions using statistics. You’ve wrapped all the numbers and theories around a person with a good story. You have someone worth mimicking. No. No. No. That's not using the story as a learning tool, that's only using the story as a teaser. Might, maybe, in some cases, make me interested in learning something that I wasn't already interested in. But if the story is boring, and I guarantee many of the teaser stories teachers would have to come up it will be boring, it makes me bored even before the real thing starts. And such teaser stories sure as hell don't do anything to help me understand the subject matter.