What does probability mean to a journalist?

From Math with Bad Drawings comes this gem, depicting what probability means to a political journalist. “The threat is real.” Heh.

There’s a whole series of such drawings. Check them out!

Tags: 2016 Election

Amitabh Lath // Sep 25, 2015 at 6:41 pm

The captain of the Millennium Falcon is a true Bayesian.

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- bks // Sep 25, 2015 at 11:46 pm
  
  I tried doing one for bioinformatics but I couldn’t fit 500 categories to the left of 10^-50.
- Matt McIrvin // Sep 27, 2015 at 3:58 pm
  
  Hokey distributions and bad priors are no match for a good blaster at your side.
SF Bays // Sep 26, 2015 at 4:20 pm

Thanks for the chuckle.

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bks // Sep 26, 2015 at 9:14 pm

A friend who I sent the link to tells me of the “Theory of Possibility” which he learned in Control Theory at Carnegie Mellon. For example: What is the possibility that a plane will crash if your single point of failure fails? The possibility is one.

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mediaglyphic // Sep 28, 2015 at 7:12 pm

totally off topic, but has anyone done analysis on the Canadian election? I have not been checking here so i might have missed some posts.

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