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

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669 points sonabinu | 1 comments | 11/21/2024, 1:45:00 AM | HN request time: 0.409s | source
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block_dagger ◴[11/21/2024, 6:48:00 AM] No.42201785[source]▶

Statistical (Bayesian) thinking is an extremely underrated way of thinking of almost everything.

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DiscourseFan ◴[11/21/2024, 9:17:00 AM] No.42202485[source]▶

Frankly, its overrated. Now you can adjust your priors.

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1. vundercind ◴[11/21/2024, 3:19:00 PM] 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.