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

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669 points sonabinu | 1 comments | 21 Nov 24 01:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | 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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DiscourseFan ◴[21 Nov 24 09:17 UTC] No.42202485[source]▶
Frankly, its overrated. Now you can adjust your priors.
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1. 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.