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Bayes theorem, the geometry of changing beliefs

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Perhaps the most important formula in probability.
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The quick proof: https://youtu.be/U_85TaXbeIo

Interactive made by Reddit user Thoggalluth: https://nskobelevs.github.io/p5js/BayesTheorem/

The study with Steve:
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/185/4157/1124
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~camerer/Ec101/JudgementUncertainty.pdf

You can read more about Kahneman and Tversky's work in Thinking Fast and Slow, or in one of my favorite books, The Undoing Project.

Contents:
0:00 - Intro example
4:09 - Generalizing as a formula
10:13 - Making probability intuitive
13:35 - Issues with the Steve example

Thanks to these viewers for their contributions to translations
Gujarati: Hitesh12358, Pragna1991
Hebrew: Omer Tuchfeld
Italian: @crampaldo

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