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Originally Posted by Ramsay
Look up Base Rate Fallacy in regards to vaccines
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Yes. Although, also, no.
Yes there are huge mathematical misunderstandings at play here and this is the risk of presenting a population with a bunch of raw data when the majority of that population has no real understanding (or often any understanding) of stats.
But also no they shouldn’t look up base rate fallacy, because looking up stats concepts, if they have no basic understanding of stats, is frankly just going to confuse them even more.