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Ep. 267 - Bernoulli's Fallacy with Aubrey Clayton

The Local Maximum with Max Sklar

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Is It the Alternate Hypothesis of Being a Double Murderer?

There are many mistakes in that argument. It would have been nice if the people had chosen to only make one mistake at a time. The main school of probability does not allow for priors and background information. So I think we're kind of stymied in some way that anyone who even took probability and statistics would not be really better equipped to understand that argument.

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