Astronomy Cast Ep. 436: Common Misconceptions in Probability

By Fraser Cain - January 17, 2017 at 1:46 PM UTC | Physics
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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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Fraser Cain

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Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today, founding the website in March 1999. He's also the co-host of Astronomy Cast.