Understanding Moments
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Understanding Moments
Once you get this second dimension into your thinking, you’ll notice yourself applying it everywhere.
Tim Urban • Page Not Found — Wait But Why
Anscombe’s Quartet : Four sets of numbers that look identical on paper (mean average, variance, correlation, etc.) but look completely different when graphed. Describes a situation where exact calculations don’t offer a good representation of how the world works.
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
Understanding does not proceed simply from examining data; it comes from examining data in a particular context. Data is useless until we know what it means. To understand its meaning, we need not only to ask the right question; we also need the appropriate instruments with which to measure the data in a meaningful process of sorting and descriptio
... See moreDavid R. Hawkins • Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior
There are three important aspects of probability that we need to explain so you can integrate them into your thinking to get into the ballpark and improve your chances of catching the ball: Bayesian thinking Fat-tailed curves Asymmetries
Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
There are three important aspects of probability that we need to explain so you can integrate them into your thinking to get into the ballpark and improve your chances of catching the ball: Bayesian thinking Fat-tailed curves Asymmetries
Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
The second pillar, Information Measurement, is logically related to the first: If we gain information by combining observations, how is the gain related to the number of observations?
Stephen M. Stigler • The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom
such as the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, the meaning of which, I have to admit, I had forgotten. (It’s a way to determine whether a model correctly fits data.)