Why average can get your predictions very wrong (ep. 102)
Episode 99 of the Data Science at Home podcast, hosted by Francesco Gadaleta, titled "Why average can get your predictions very wrong (ep. 102)" was published on April 19, 2020 and runs 14 minutes.
April 19, 2020 ·14m · Data Science at Home
Summary
Whenever people reason about probability of events, they have the tendency to consider average values between two extremes. In this episode I explain why such a way of approximating is wrong and dangerous, with a numerical example. We are moving our community to Slack. See you there!
Episode Description
Whenever people reason about probability of events, they have the tendency to consider average values between two extremes. In this episode I explain why such a way of approximating is wrong and dangerous, with a numerical example.
We are moving our community to Slack. See you there!
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