Imagine we design a test to detect a disease. In the graph below are 500 patients. Some patients have a positive test result and also have […]
Power Laws, Decision Making, and Anxiety
Power laws are mathematical relationships used in statistics to describe how a change in one variable affects another variable. A basic power law is illustrated […]
The Illusion of Causality
Humans seek to explain and understand. We want answers and explanations. Our brains demand it. But our brains have developed many short-cuts to understanding and […]