@rysiek
Part of the reason conditional probability and probability more generally are confusing is that it insists on living on the margin of human language expressed in words and sentences and mathematical representations of that language.
And our language simply IS NOT precise when talking about cause, effect, probability, dependence and a whole host of topics. It's a big mess.
https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/113526494448938942
@futurebird yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
@futurebird @rysiek There are a bunch of "rhetorical fallacies" that are false when taken as statements about logical implication but that I've always thought appeal to us because they resemble […]
@futurebird @rysiek A discipline which gave a weird jargon meaning to the ordinary meaning of "significant" cannot complain.
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