Using Abortion Debates to Explain Bayesian Statistics

I’m never one to pass up a chance to leverage people’s interest in a hot-button social issue to talk about probability theory.  I’m over at Ethika Politika today, talking about how base-rate neglect can skew people’s understanding of the significance of screening test (specifically, those for fetal abnormalities) A New Danger to Expecting Mothers: Statistical [Read More...]