It's often better to unlearn to do things wrong than to learn to do them right. You can look up the right way later.
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eg: Doctors Getting Bayesian Stuff Catastrophically Wrong. Memorizing Bayes is far less valuable than knowing Bayes exists & when to use it.
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The critical mistake is trying to answer in a muddled way. Maybe this is problematic for doctors, who have to make critical decisions fast?
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But for the rest of us...unlearning getting sucked into giving a nonsense answer for fear of losing face is probably enough.
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I mean, JFC, you think I remember Bayes' Rule off the top of my head? I reconstruct it from the Venn diagram.
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@St_Rev I could always apply Bayes by rote but this is what made it click into place like CHA-CHUNK in my headpic.twitter.com/ND89PiIfMY
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@St_Rev like how I had to stare at infection & death counters for weeks on the game Plague Inc. before Benford's Law made intuitive sense
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