Comment Re:Statistics in School (Score 1) 287
I've always used an example of how statistics can be deceiving. If you put 99 rocks and a chicken egg in a box, and a baby chick walks out, there was a 99% chance that it came out of one of the rocks.
This is a terrible example of statistical thinking -- especially from a Bayesian point of view. What's the prior probability that you assign to a chicken coming from one the rocks? If it isn't zero, then... I don't know what to say.