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#102. How Bayesian Statistics Underpins Both Scientific Prediction and Everyday Functioning
Manage episode 420803436 series 3420180
Tom Chivers is a science writer who has won several awards, including the Royal Statistical Society’s award for statistical excellence in journalism, the Association of British Science Writers’ science journalist of the year, and the Times’s science books of the year. He has written three books. His first, The Rationalist’s Guide to the Galaxy: Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who Are Trying to Save Humanity’s Future, was published in 2019. His second book, How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them) was published in 2021. His just-released third book, entitled Everything is Predictable: How Bayes’ Remarkable Theorem Explains the World, is the subject of today’s interview.
Recorded 5/21/24.
141 episoder
Manage episode 420803436 series 3420180
Tom Chivers is a science writer who has won several awards, including the Royal Statistical Society’s award for statistical excellence in journalism, the Association of British Science Writers’ science journalist of the year, and the Times’s science books of the year. He has written three books. His first, The Rationalist’s Guide to the Galaxy: Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who Are Trying to Save Humanity’s Future, was published in 2019. His second book, How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them) was published in 2021. His just-released third book, entitled Everything is Predictable: How Bayes’ Remarkable Theorem Explains the World, is the subject of today’s interview.
Recorded 5/21/24.
141 episoder
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