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Understanding probability will help you get a more correct picture of the world and help you make better decisions.
Most of us fall prey to the same handful of issues because aspects of probability go against what we think is intuitive.
When two event are interconnected, the former happening increases or decreases the probability of the latter happening.
In Naked Statistics, Charles Wheelan explains: âA different kind of mistake occurs when events that are independent are not treated as such . . . If you flip a fair coin 1,000,000 times and get 1,000,000 heads in a row, the probability of getting heads on the next flip is still 1/2. The very ...
While particular improbable events are improbable, the chance of any improbable event happening at all is highly probable.
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