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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Apr 18

      Health Nerd Retweeted Tom Chivers

      Unpopular opinion, but Bayes theorem *is* obscure, at least to the public. I use it in my job, but the first time I'd heard the term in more than a passing fashion was in a postgraduate degreehttps://twitter.com/TomChivers/status/1383874981763829761 …

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      Tom ChiversVerified account @TomChivers
      (this isn't a particular criticism of Prof Salzberg; we're all prey to the curse of knowledge. Plus I'm a bit grumpy because a load of maths PhDs are telling me off for the "obscure" thing, which I think is suboptimal but basically fine and they think somehow belittles all maths)
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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Apr 18

      If you're talking maths, anything that isn't taught in high school commonly is a bit obscure for most people. The same is true for most subjects!

      1:39 PM - 18 Apr 2021
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        2. Boris Barbour‏ @BorisBarbour Apr 18
          Replying to @GidMK

          What's awkward is describing something so central in its field as obscure, even if most people are not familiar with the field. Is E=mc2 "obscure"?

          2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Apr 18
          Replying to @BorisBarbour

          The equation itself is famous but I'm willing to bet that many people don't know what it represents or what the symbols mean

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
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        1. LaGenevoisedeservice‏ @RightsRobins Apr 18
          Replying to @GidMK

          I learned about it in high school and promptly forgot about it two months later lol

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        2. Carl T. Bergstrom‏Verified account @CT_Bergstrom Apr 18
          Replying to @GidMK

          I have no problem with the "this looks complicated" line that @TomChivers wrote. It *does* look complicated, because the notion is (unavoidably?) ugly. The "obscure theorem governs COVID testing" thing in the headline does bother me, because it's a lazy trope.

          3 replies 2 retweets 10 likes
        3. Carl T. Bergstrom‏Verified account @CT_Bergstrom Apr 18
          Replying to @CT_Bergstrom @GidMK @TomChivers

          First of all, it's not obscure formula that just happens to be useful, it's the fundamental expression of how we incorporate new information into our assessments. Second, it's so much broader than COVID testing, but the headline makes it seem like a "this one trick" story.

          4 replies 1 retweet 14 likes
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        1. Tilo ‚Modernasiert‘‏ @AdinChelloveck Apr 18
          Replying to @GidMK

          I thought I learned a variant of it in high school

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        2. JH // from fairest tweeps we desire increase‏ @jhan2qt Apr 18
          Replying to @GidMK

          other things that are not taught in high school and are widely misunderstood by adults: - medicine - economics - mental health - project management - error culture - healthy relationships - negotiations - agriculture guess this is not a complete list

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        3. Chris Roeder‏ @croeder6000 Apr 18
          Replying to @jhan2qt @GidMK

          I’d add statistics (beyond mean, median and maybe standard deviation).

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        1. Mark‏ @mellowmark Apr 18
          Replying to @GidMK

          It is taught in UK high schools if you do A level maths as a subject:https://alevelmaths.co.uk/statistics/bayes-theorem/ …

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        1. Chris Roeder‏ @croeder6000 Apr 18
          Replying to @GidMK

          I’m surprised at how confusing the differences between the following quantities seem to be: .75%, 75%, 0.75, 0.0075

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