Chapter
The Importance of Teaching Probability and Statistics in School
50:00 - 54:11 (04:10)
The speaker advocates for teaching probability and statistics early on in school and placing it on the same ranking as reading, writing, and arithmetic. He explains how being ill-equipped to evaluate probability and statistics leads to entire industries exploiting our lack of understanding.
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This podcast highlights the need to incorporate probability and statistics as important subjects in early education as reading, writing, and arithmetic.
50:00 - 52:10 (02:09)
Probability and Statistics
Summary
This podcast highlights the need to incorporate probability and statistics as important subjects in early education as reading, writing, and arithmetic. The lack of education in these fields makes individuals ill-equipped in evaluating the probability of events, leading to being manipulated by lottery machines.
ChapterThe Importance of Teaching Probability and Statistics in School
Episode#468 - Neil deGrasse Tyson - Welcome To The Universe
PodcastModern Wisdom
The speaker talks about writing a book during the COVID pandemic and questions the reliability of human testimony as evidence.
52:10 - 54:11 (02:00)
Testimony
Summary
The speaker talks about writing a book during the COVID pandemic and questions the reliability of human testimony as evidence.