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The classic. If there is one concept people should learn from stats it should be base rates and the Bayes update. It's very difficult to teach though. The mind just jumps to that interpretation, and even if you teach it, people just go right back to interpreting it like that anyway, because they think "yeah yeah technically something something math, I know, but basically in practice it kinda just means that anyway". Even plenty of educated professionals in science do not understand this and continue to get it wrong each day.

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