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Serene-Arc<p>My treatise on dice probability in TTRPGs is really coming along! Working out the probabilities for contested rolls was…way too difficult (thank you Interlock) but it’s mostly there. No idea how I’m going to fit in bonus dice with modifiers but that’s a problem for another day. </p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/probability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>probability</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maths</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/dice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dice</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ttrpg</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/ttrpgs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ttrpgs</span></a></p>
Dr Mircea Zloteanu ☀️ 🌊🌴<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/statstab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>statstab</span></a> #389 Risk Ratio, odds ratio, risk difference… Which causal measure is easier to generalize?</p><p>Thoughts: Use this with #388 for better insight into the issue of risk, odds, probabilities, and more.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/odds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>odds</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oddsratios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oddsratios</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/riskratios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>riskratios</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/probability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>probability</span></a></p><p><a href="https://arxiv.org/html/2303.16008v3" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/html/2303.16008v3</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.<p>How can <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/stats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stats</span></a> communication impact high-stakes judgments?</p><p>1. Intelligence analysts often failed to assign their agency's recommended words such as "likely" or "remote chance" to numeric <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/probability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>probability</span></a>.</p><p>2. <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Visualization</span></a> of the probabilities didn't help?</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2025.2468049" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2025.</span><span class="invisible">2468049</span></a></p>
Dr Mircea Zloteanu ☀️ 🌊🌴<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/statstab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>statstab</span></a> #388 The odds are it's wrong: Correcting a common mistake in statistics</p><p>Thoughts: Report probabilities instead, which in R (not SPSS) can be easily computed for your models.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/odds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>odds</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oddsratios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oddsratios</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/riskratios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>riskratios</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/probability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>probability</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/r" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>r</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/logisticregression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>logisticregression</span></a></p><p><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/test.12391" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10</span><span class="invisible">.1111/test.12391</span></a></p>
Joshua Grochow<p>This is an example of amortized complexity and Strassen's "asymptotic spectra" (nice monograph by Zuiddam &amp; Wigderson: <a href="https://www.math.ias.edu/~avi/PUBLICATIONS/WigdersonZu_Final_Draft_Oct2023.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">math.ias.edu/~avi/PUBLICATIONS</span><span class="invisible">/WigdersonZu_Final_Draft_Oct2023.pdf</span></a>)</p><p>Strassen developed this to understand the <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>complexity</span></a> of matrix multiplication and <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/tensors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tensors</span></a>, but it turns out to also show up in a bunch of places:<br>- <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Entropy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Entropy</span></a><br>- <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Quantum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Quantum</span></a> information<br>- Shannon capacity of graphs<br>- Communication complexity <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_complexity#Information_Complexity" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communic</span><span class="invisible">ation_complexity#Information_Complexity</span></a><br>- Circuit complexity (Robere &amp; Zuiddam <a href="https://eccc.weizmann.ac.il/report/2021/035" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">eccc.weizmann.ac.il/report/202</span><span class="invisible">1/035</span></a>)</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/probability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>probability</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ComputationalComplexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputationalComplexity</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/TCS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TCS</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/InformationTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InformationTheory</span></a></p>
Joshua Grochow<p>Real coin flips are ~49-51 not 50-50 <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-destroy-illusion-that-coin-toss-flips-are-50-50/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">scientificamerican.com/article</span><span class="invisible">/scientists-destroy-illusion-that-coin-toss-flips-are-50-50/</span></a></p><p>But you can guarantee equal probability with a simple trick! Flip 2x in a row starting with the same side up.</p><p>HT-&gt;call it H<br>TH-&gt;call it T<br>HH,TT-&gt;try again</p><p>(due to von Neumann <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness_extractor#Von_Neumann_extractor" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomne</span><span class="invisible">ss_extractor#Von_Neumann_extractor</span></a>)</p><p>This leads to randomness extractors: from a given random process, what's the biggest uniform distribution you can get efficiently?</p><p>Randomness extractors give another interpretation of <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/entropy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>entropy</span></a>:</p><p>avg # bits needed to *describe* the outcome<br>=<br># uniformly random bits you can *extract* from the outcome</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/probability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>probability</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ComputationalComplexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputationalComplexity</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/TCS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TCS</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/InformationTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InformationTheory</span></a></p>
GMRaphi<p>omg mein guter Freund zombiecalypse hat mal wieder abgeliefert: "Wieso gehen Pläne schief, erster Grund: Optimismus". </p><p><a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ttrpg</span></a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/pnpde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pnpde</span></a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/dnd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dnd</span></a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/dice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dice</span></a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>statistics</span></a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/success" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>success</span></a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/failure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>failure</span></a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/probability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>probability</span></a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maths</span></a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/mathe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathe</span></a></p>
pglpm<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.cat/@androcat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>androcat</span></a></span> <br>It applies to all branches of science. For example statistics: there's no such thing as "letting the data speak for themselves"; they're always interpreted against a background of assumptions and prior knowledge.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>statistics</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/probability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>probability</span></a></p>
The Kid Should See This 🌈🪐✨<p>🎲🌀 How do mathematicians find patterns in unpredictable events? This <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>video</span></a> explains randomness through Michel Talagrand's groundbreaking work on mathematical inequalities.</p><p>Random events follow patterns called "normal distributions". After 1,000 coin flips, getting only heads is almost impossible—randomness becomes predictable within limits.</p><p>👉 Learn more: <a href="https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/randomness-probability-math-talagrand" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thekidshouldseethis.com/post/r</span><span class="invisible">andomness-probability-math-talagrand</span></a></p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/tksst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tksst</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/probability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>probability</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>statistics</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chaos</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/dice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dice</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/coins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coins</span></a></p>
Lise Andreasen<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ThisWeeksFiddler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThisWeeksFiddler</span></a>, 20250530<br>This week the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/puzzle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>puzzle</span></a> is: Can You Weave the Web? <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/geometry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geometry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/trigonometry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trigonometry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/probability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>probability</span></a> (Link at the bottom.) A spider weaves a web within a unit square (i.e., a square with side length 1) in the following haphazard manner: First, the spider picks two points at random inside the square. In particular, it picks the points […]</p><p><a href="https://stuff.ommadawn.dk/2025/06/03/thisweeksfiddler-20250530/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stuff.ommadawn.dk/2025/06/03/t</span><span class="invisible">hisweeksfiddler-20250530/</span></a></p>
Archimage<p>“You could pay as little as $0.” “Save up to $2000” may be true, but probably false without the odds.</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/marketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marketing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/failure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>failure</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/probability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>probability</span></a></p>
-0--1-<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://snapp.social/@alsutton" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>alsutton</span></a></span> Everytime I go down that rabbit hole, I take a step back and add some context about the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MagicSkyDaddies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MagicSkyDaddies</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ZombieJews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ZombieJews</span></a>, and other <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ImaginaryFriends" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ImaginaryFriends</span></a> BILLIONS of people <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Whisper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Whisper</span></a> their <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SelfishWhispers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SelfishWhispers</span></a> to to bend the laws of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Physics</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chemistry</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biology</span></a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Probability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Probability</span></a> to grant their <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SelfishDesires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SelfishDesires</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/beLIEve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>beLIEve</span></a> and will pay 10% of their earnings to. Here is some context:</p>
Nom__XD, 飲ん,诺穆 (They/Them)🐈‍⬛<p>The probability of picking a random real number is not zero or else it would be impossible. We assume it's zero when we are using integrals to measure uncountable sets, but some people do a poor job explaining it. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/probability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>probability</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>statistics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nomxd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nomxd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a>🐾</p>
Ars Technica News<p>Your next gaming dice could be shaped like a dragon or armadillo <a href="https://arstechni.ca/5RvQ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arstechni.ca/5RvQ</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/computationalscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computationalscience</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Computersimulations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Computersimulations</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/shapeanalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shapeanalysis</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/probability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>probability</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/3Dprinting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3Dprinting</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/geometry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geometry</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a></p>
datatofu<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/datascience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datascience</span></a> cheatsheets for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>python</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/probability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>probability</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linearalgebra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linearalgebra</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/calculus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>calculus</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scipy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scipy</span></a> </p><p>(Not necessarily in that order)</p>
Lise Andreasen<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ThisWeeksFiddler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThisWeeksFiddler</span></a>, 20250523<br>This week the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/puzzle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>puzzle</span></a> is: How Long Is the River? <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/probability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>probability</span></a> (Link at the bottom.) … a phenomenon known as a “river”, where spaces between words diagonally align from one line of text to the next. Before getting to rivers, let’s figure out where spaces are likely to appear in the (fictional) Fiddlish language, which […]</p><p><a href="https://stuff.ommadawn.dk/2025/05/27/thisweeksfiddler-20250523/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stuff.ommadawn.dk/2025/05/27/t</span><span class="invisible">hisweeksfiddler-20250523/</span></a></p>
Ross Kang<p>Just yesterday, I was musing to a (younger) research visitor, "I hope that within my lifetime we will still see another breakthrough on the bounds for R(3,k)"...</p><p><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13371" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2505.13371</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>I am excited to see what developments follow on from here!</p><p>(Also that old adage: just as soon as you publish a survey (<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03379" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2501.03379</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>) it is out of date.)</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/combinatorics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>combinatorics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ExtremalCombinatorics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtremalCombinatorics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/graphtheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>graphtheory</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/probability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>probability</span></a></p>
Lise Andreasen<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ThisWeeksFiddler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThisWeeksFiddler</span></a>, 20250509<br>This week the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/puzzle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>puzzle</span></a> is: Can You Sweep the Series? <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/probability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>probability</span></a> Let p represent the probability the Celtics win any given game in the [best-of-seven] series. You should assume that p is constant (which means there’s no home-court advantage) and that games are independent. For certain values of p, the likeliest outcome is indeed that […]</p><p><a href="https://stuff.ommadawn.dk/2025/05/13/thisweeksfiddler-20250509/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stuff.ommadawn.dk/2025/05/13/t</span><span class="invisible">hisweeksfiddler-20250509/</span></a></p>
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.<p>How hard is it to teach clinicians <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/probability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>probability</span></a>?</p><p>After a 2-hour e-learning course clinicians felt more confident and did better on multiple choice questions, but didn't improve their <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/risk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>risk</span></a> calculations (n &gt; 200).</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2020-111521" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2020-11</span><span class="invisible">1521</span></a></p><p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/edu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edu</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/stats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stats</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/expertise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>expertise</span></a></p>
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.<p>What's a better predictor of med. students' accuracy in <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/diagnosis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diagnosis</span></a>?<br>- <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Motivation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Motivation</span></a> to become a researcher<br>- <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Math</span></a> ability</p><p>Among 128 students of <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a>, <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/numeracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>numeracy</span></a> was *much* more predictive of scores on medical cases involving <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/probability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>probability</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-025-07135-5" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1186/s12909-025-071</span><span class="invisible">35-5</span></a></p><p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/edu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edu</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/stats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stats</span></a></p>