BiPiSci – Worrier Mentality: Charles Wheelan / Probability Problem

by Gary Niederhoff on May 27, 2019

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Click above to listen to Part 4 of Skeptic Check: Worrier Mentality, featuring Charles Wheelan, Senior Lecturer and Policy Fellow, Dartmouth College, and author of “Naked Statistics”, explaining why people have trouble grasping statistical probabilities.

Tagged as: psychology, skepticism, sociology, statistics

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