Episode 74 - Denominators Suck!
Sadistically Speaking
English - July 07, 2022 16:00 - 11 minutes - 7.94 MBNews Commentary News Society & Culture Philosophy controversial commentary debate current events philosophy science Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Humans cannot understand probabilities and real data and instead rely on their own brain and experience. Note the recent suggestions that mass shooters are overwhelmingly white and that these shooters should be caught ahead of time because they so clearly fit the description. This kind of post hoc and non-data driven crap reinforces itself and becomes doctrine. This is the definition of Fake News. Also, what is the half-life of memory for mass-shootings? 3 months? #WaukashaParadeShooting