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Probably Overthinking It: Election day, finally!
Abstract : I defend my claim that voter suppression is 1000 times worse than voter fraud, and furthermore, that voter suppression introduces...
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Probably Overthinking It: The Internet and religious affiliation
A few weeks ago I published this paper on arXiv: " Religious affiliation, education and Internet use ". Regular readers of this blog will r...
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Probably Overthinking It: The World Cup Problem: Germany v. Brazil
Earlier this semester I posed this problem to my Bayesian statistics class at Olin College : In the 2014 FIFA World Cup, Germany played B...
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Probably Overthinking It: April 2017
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Probably Overthinking It: May 2013
A blog by Allen Downey.
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Probably Overthinking It: Probability is hard, part two
If you read yesterday's post, you know that my colleague Sanjoy Mahajan and I have been working on a series of problems related to condition...
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https://allendowney.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-alien-blaster-problem.html?m=1
Probably Overthinking It: The Alien Blaster Problem
Last week I posted the Alien Blaster Problem: In preparation for an alien invasion, the Earth Defense League has been working on new miss...
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Probably Overthinking It: One million is a lot
When I was in third grade, the principal of my elementary school announced a bottle cap drive with the goal of collecting one million bottle...
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https://allendowney.blogspot.com/2016/09/bayess-theorem-is-not-optional.html?m=1
Probably Overthinking It: Bayes's Theorem is not optional
Abstract: I present a probability puzzle, the Rain in Seattle Problem, and use it to explain differences between the Bayesian and frequenti...
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Probably Overthinking It: Obesity epidemic cured!
I have good news to report -- the obesity epidemic is over. And the solution turns out to be the best kind: simple and completely painless...
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https://allendowney.blogspot.com/2011/02/moving-goalposts.html?m=0
Probably Overthinking It: Moving the goalposts
Last week I wrote about the effect of the Boston Marathon qualifying standard on finish times in other marathons. The next day the organiz...
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Probably Overthinking It: April 2011
A blog by Allen Downey.
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Probably Overthinking It: A nice Bayes theorem problem: medical testing
On these previous post about my favorite Bayes theorem problems , I got the following comment from a reader named Riya: I have a questio...
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Probably Overthinking It: Belly Button Biodiversity: Part Three
This is part three of a series of articles about a Bayesian solution to the Unseen Species problem, applied to data from the Belly Button...
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