Why average can get your predictions very wrong (ep. 102)

from Data Science at Home · host Francesco Gadaleta

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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