Astronomy Cast Ep. 436: Common Misconceptions in Probability
Common Misconceptions in Probability
Human beings are bad at many things, but we’re particularly terrible at understanding probability in a rational way. We underestimate, overestimate and generally mess up probability. We’ll try to fix it here, but we’ll surely fail.
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