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Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking

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669 points sonabinu | 3 comments | 21 Nov 24 01:45 UTC | HN request time: 2.246s | source
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block_dagger ◴[21 Nov 24 06:48 UTC] No.42201785[source]▶
Statistical (Bayesian) thinking is an extremely underrated way of thinking of almost everything.
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1. DiscourseFan ◴[21 Nov 24 09:17 UTC] No.42202485[source]▶
Frankly, its overrated. Now you can adjust your priors.
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2. ai4eva ◴[21 Nov 24 15:14 UTC] No.42205058[source]▶
lol yea.

bayesian thinking doesnt come to me naturally.. i have no intuition for it. seems forced. believe me - i have tried. but there are those who are swearing by it.

3. vundercind ◴[21 Nov 24 15:19 UTC] No.42205133[source]▶
I'm pretty down on it just by association. So many people who are super-into it seem to be doing a lot of that rigorously-wrong engineer-brain thing.