Explaining conditional probabilties

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Steven Strogatz has a go at demonstrating the Bayes’ Box, without the box.  Hundreds of befuddled and off-topic comments ensue.  I teach this thing in about an hour, and all my students can do it.

Tip from Andrew Gelman (commenter #17).

Update (4 May).  More from Kaiser Fung.


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