Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Why average can get your predictions very wrong (ep. 102)
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Why average can get your predictions very wrong (ep. 102)
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!
View all episodes
By Francesco Gadaleta
4.2
7272 ratings
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!
More shows like Data Science at Home
View all
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
4,022 Listeners
Making Sense with Sam Harris
26,380 Listeners
Nature Podcast
756 Listeners
Software Engineering Daily
626 Listeners
Science Vs
12,130 Listeners
Science Friday
6,467 Listeners
Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn
306 Listeners
The Daily
113,121 Listeners
Up First from NPR
56,944 Listeners
The Atlantic Interview
14 Listeners
Modern Wisdom
4,025 Listeners
The Peter Attia Drive
8,043 Listeners
Practical AI
212 Listeners
Consider This from NPR
6,462 Listeners
The Ezra Klein Show
16,525 Listeners