Your eyes won’t glaze over: Bayes’ Theorem for elementary school kids

Your eyes won’t glaze over: Bayes’ Theorem for elementary school kids

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Filed under Open thread, Science at July 8th, 2014 - 12:00 pm

Understanding Bayes’ Theorem

Published on Jul 3, 2014 by Acts17Apologetics
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Many people are intimidated by Bayes’ theorem, because it looks like a complicated mathematical equation. However, once we understand what the symbols represent, Bayes’ theorem turns out to be based on the sort of math we all learned in elementary school. To prove it, here’s a video of me teaching Bayes’ theorem to two of my sons (ages nine and ten). If they can learn it, you can learn it!

It’s explained above.

Tags: mathematics, Open thread, statistics

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