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Conditional Probability, Fast and Slow

Now more than ever, we’re bombarded with terms like “sensitivity” or “specificity” in relation to Covid-19 tests. It turns out that to understand these, you first need to understand conditional probability.

Because common sense intuition can be often misleading, I will walk you through a conditional probablity problem about Blue and Green cabbies from the book Thinking, Fast and Slow.