#76-How mathematics can improve our lives and make us better critical thinkers-with guest John Allen Paulos
Thinking Clearly
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COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of understanding statistics and making accurate inferences from the data that's being put out there all the time. Let's talk a little bit about false positives. We touched on fatality rates and base rates. Maybe we can dig in a little bit more and how, for example, to interpret medical test results like the COVID tests could sometimes be counterintuitive.
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