14 min

Why average can get your predictions very wrong (ep. 102‪)‬ Data Science at Home

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Whenever people reason about probability of events, they have the tendency to consider average values between two extremes. In this episode I explain why such a way of approximating is wrong and dangerous, with a numerical example.
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Whenever people reason about probability of events, they have the tendency to consider average values between two extremes. In this episode I explain why such a way of approximating is wrong and dangerous, with a numerical example.
We are moving our community to Slack. See you there!
 
 

14 min

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