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Data Science at Home - Why average can get your predictions very wrong (ep. 102)

Why average can get your predictions very wrong (ep. 102)

Data Science at Home

04/19/20 • 14 min

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Whenever people reason about probability of events, they have the tendency to consider average values between two extremes.
In this episode I explain why such a way of approximating is wrong and dangerous, with a numerical example.

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04/19/20 • 14 min

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