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How can linear thinking trip us up?
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How Can Maths Help Us Make Better Predictions? – With Kit Yates
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- 1 Intro and famously bad predictions from school reports
- 2 What is linearity?
- 3 How can linear thinking trip us up?
- 4 What is non-linearity?
- 5 How do positive feedback loops work?
- 6 What is exponential growth?
- 7 What does true randomness look like?
- 8 Why do humans look for patterns?
- 9 Why the iPod Shuffle algorithm wasn’t actually random
- 10 Why are humans bad at being truly random?
- 11 How to use randomness to choose lottery numbers
- 12 How to change your mind
- 13 Using maths to reason better in life
